how to pronounce sportsman

/ˈspɔːɹtsmən/

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sportsman is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of sportsman in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… young male sportsman um to a middle-aged …”

meanings of sportsman

noun:

A man who engages in sports; a male athlete.
A man who engages in country sports, such as hunting or fishing.

sportsman frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word sportsman occurs in english on average 0.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics sportsman can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that sportsman can be often used in the following areas:

1) leisure and entertainment;

2) people, society, and culture;