nonswimmer
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- noun
- /ˈnɑnˌswɪmɚ/
- Children who are nonswimmers must be supervised closely during pool parties.
Examples
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Despite my mother's demonstrated aquatic skills, however, I adamantly refused to let her teach me any of them and remained, at the relatively advanced age of ten, a coy nonswimmer.
Fiction book (1991) -
We made some ad hoc calculations of the eligible population by adjusting the source population by a conservative likely percentage of nonswimmers and by the percentage ineligible because of having received nonjudicial punishments.
Academic text (2000) -
Water safety experts advise that nonswimmers should always wear life jackets when near the water.
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As a nonswimmer, I always chose to relax on the beach rather than go into the water.
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Etymology
The word nonswimmer is simply non- 'not' plus swimmer, from swim meaning 'to move through water', so it means a person who does not swim. That's why a nonswimmer stays on the shore or uses a life jacket.