pugilist
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- noun
- /ˈpjuːdʒɪlɪst/
:
boxeador
- During the championship match, the pugilist displayed incredible speed and technique.
Examples
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Thom Jones is the author of The Pugilist at Rest, a collection of short stories.
Fiction book (1995) -
It must be most interesting, Kid, the life of a pugilist.
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Don't you find seeking a career as a pugilist and reading for a degree at Oxford a bit, how shall we put it, intellectually challenging?
Fiction book (1992) -
And at his age, he knew it would be a bit hard to claim it was all a result of a stirring round of fisticuffs; his glory days as a pugilist for Eton were long behind him.
Fiction book (2001) -
Vargas walked from his dressing room to the ring accompanied by Julio César Chávez, the legendary pugilist from Culiacán, Mexico.
Academic text (2013) -
The trained pugilist entered the ring with confidence, ready to defend his title.
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Many young athletes aspire to become a successful pugilist and compete professionally.
Synonyms
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A person who fights for a cause or as a job
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A person who fights using their fists in a sport with rules
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A boxer who fights for money
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A person who hits people with their fist, often in boxing
A trained person who fights in boxing matches for money
A person who fights with fists, like a boxer
Compounds
How Professional
Surface Forms
Morphology
pugilist = pugil (opaque) = pugil + ist
The root 'pugil' is a learned Latin combining form unfamiliar to most learners, so the agentive '-ist' does not yield a transparently derivable meaning from common English vocabulary.
Etymology
Pugilist comes from the Latin word pugnus, meaning 'fist', and from pugil, which meant 'boxer'. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine someone using their 'fists' to fight, which is why a pugilist is a boxer who fights with their fists.