"featherweight" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: featherweights [plural]
Etymology: feather + weight Etymology templates: {{compound|en|feather|weight}} 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. Categories (topical): Boxing Categories (lifeform): Horse racing
    Sense id: en-featherweight-en-noun-oWZT15gH Disambiguation of Boxing: 73 22 4 Disambiguation of Horse racing: 65 16 19 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 76 4 20 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 70 6 25 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 58 6 36
  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': 23 75 1
  3. The lightest weight that may be carried by a racehorse.
    Sense id: en-featherweight-en-noun-6yfBTSwT
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

Inflected forms

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