What's the difference between swordsman and wordsman?
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.
Wordsman
Definition:
(n.) One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist.