swordsman

What it means

1. A person skilled at using swords in sport or combat; a fencer.

   He is a remarkable swordsman.

2. A person who fights with a sword.

   Archers attempted to take down an unknown swordsman.

   Synonyms: swordfighter, swordsperson, swordster

3. informalA man who is a skillful or enthusiastic practitioner of sexual intercourse.

   Jennifer Aniston is in control . . . and getting what she needs from a notorious swordsman eight years her junior.

   2008 December 16, Mark Kirby, “Lordy, Lordy, This Woman is 40”, in GQ, archived from the original on 21 Dec 2008, retrieved 21 Dec 2008

   Synonyms: womanizer

In a sentence

He is a remarkable swordsman.

Where it comes from

1. Englishsword
2. Proto-Indo-European*mon-
3. Proto-Germanic*mann-
4. Proto-West Germanic*mann
5. Old Englishmann
6. Middle Englishman
7. Englishman
8. Englishswordsman

From sword + -s- + man.