"featherweight" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈfɛðɚˌweɪt/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-featherweight.wav [US] Forms: featherweights [plural]
Etymology: Etymology tree English feather English weight English featherweight From feather + weight. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|feather|weight|text=+|tree=1}} Etymology tree English feather English weight English featherweight From feather + weight. Head templates: {{en-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.
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  2. A sportsman who fights in this division. Translations (sportsman): höyhensarjalainen (Finnish), poids plume [masculine] (French), Federgewichtler [masculine] (German), Federgewicht [neuter] (German), pehelysúlyú versenyző (Hungarian), peso-pena [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-featherweight-en-noun-uFzWIVBy Disambiguation of 'sportsman': 14 84 2
  3. The lightest weight that may be carried by a racehorse.
    Sense id: en-featherweight-en-noun-6yfBTSwT Categories (other): Horse racing Disambiguation of Horse racing: 31 24 44
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (weight division): перо (pero) [neuter] (Bulgarian), pes ploma [masculine] (Catalan), höyhensarja (Finnish), poids plume [masculine] (French), Federgewicht [neuter] (German), pehelysúly (Hungarian), waga piórkowa [feminine] (Polish), peso-pena [masculine] (Portuguese), categorie pană [feminine] (Romanian), fjädervikt [common-gender] (Swedish)
Disambiguation of 'weight division': 22 42 36

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