featherweight

English

Etymology

From feather +‎ weight.

Pronunciation

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Noun

featherweight (plural featherweights)

1. A weight class in many combat sports; e.g. in professional boxing of a maximum of 126 pounds or 57.2 kilograms.
   • 2024 November 4, Jamie Gardner, “Mandatory genetic testing in sport ‘not justified, ethical or viable’, say academics”, in The Independent‎^[1]:

     Safety and fairness in female sport was one of the most prominent topics at this summer’s Olympic Games, where boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu Ting took gold in the women’s welterweight and featherweight categories respectively.

2. A sportsman who fights in this division.
   • 1923 November 14, Evening Independent, Massillon, Ohio, 5/3:

     Watson specializes in adiposeness; none of his chorus beauties may be considered featherweights.

3. The lightest weight that may be carried by a racehorse.

Translations

weight division

• Bulgarian: перо (bg) n (pero)
• Catalan: pes ploma m
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• Finnish: höyhensarja (fi)
• French: poids plume (fr) m
• German: Federgewicht (de) n
• Hungarian: pehelysúly (hu)
• Polish: waga piórkowa f
• Portuguese: peso-pena (pt) m
• Romanian: categorie pană (ro) f
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• Swedish: fjädervikt (sv) c

sportsman

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• Finnish: höyhensarjalainen (fi)
• French: poids plume (fr) m
• German: Federgewichtler m, Federgewicht (de) n
• Hungarian: pehelysúlyú versenyző
• Portuguese: peso-pena (pt) m or f
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