What's the difference between swordfighter and swordsman?

Swordfighter


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The three wanted Eonnagata to be a collaboration at every level: if Guillem wanted to speak, Lepage to choreograph and Maliphant to swordfight, then they were all free to do so.
  • (2) The Québec audience - used to getting a first sight of Lepage's works in progress - were unfazed by the show's extravagant mix of modern dance, kabuki, theatre and swordfights.
  • (3) I was expecting something about kangaroos or being on television or swordfights.
  • (4) Don't actually make lightsaber noises with your mouth if you're asked to swordfight Alec Guinness wields a lightsaber in Star Wars.
  • (5) The trio decided that all three of them would play the Chevalier: Maliphant representing his younger self, Sylvie his middle years, and Lepage the final period, after he had been disgraced at court and ended up in London, living off society women and his own earnings as an exhibition swordfighter.
  • (6) When you’re 15 you’re not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting – not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience.

Swordsman


Definition:

  • (n.) A soldier; a fighting man.
  • (n.) One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Resorting to a series of Ted the swordsman scenes which may merely be the lurid fantasies of the heroine, director Christine Jeffs never makes it clear whether Hughes was a rampaging philanderer whose sexual conquests and general obliviousness to Plath's mounting depression led to her demise, or a man driven into other women's arms by his wife's chronic melancholy - perhaps the most time-honoured excuse of the inveterate tomcat - or both.
  • (2) James Debens emails: "Watching Spain v Chile reminded me of the Arab swordsman scene in Indiana Jones, with Chile as our bestubbled hero killing tiki-taka."
  • (3) And he's a spy and a great swordsman, and you get the feeling that if you put him into solitary confinement he would come out very much as he went in.
  • (4) And yet it is to a Japanese assassin, a stone-cold swordsman, that his two most recent collaborators compare him.

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