Word Meanings - SPRINTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who sprints; one who runs in sprint races; as, a champion sprinter.

Related words: (words related to SPRINTER)

• CHAMPION
  cf. OHG. chempho, chemphio, fighter, champf, G. kampf, contest; perh. influenced by L. campus field, taken in the sense of "field of 1. One who engages in any contest; esp. one who in ancient times contended in single combat in behalf of another's
• SPRINTER
  One who sprints; one who runs in sprint races; as, a champion sprinter.
• CHAMPIONSHIP
  State of being champion; leadership; supremancy.
• SPRINT
  To run very rapidly; to run at full speed. A runner should be able to sprint the whole way. Encyc. Brit. (more info) Etym:
• CHAMPIONNESS
  A female champion. Fairfax.
• LADY'S TRACES; LADIES' TRESSES; LADIES TRESSES
  A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.
• MISPRINT
  To print wrong.
• TRANSPRINT
  To transfer to the wrong place in printing; to print out of place. Coleridge.