Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A British military officer's orderly.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A person allowed by the government to every company of a regiment on foreign service. His duty is to take charge of the cooking utensils, etc., of the company. There is in the charge of the batman a bathorse for each company to convey the cooking utensils from place to place.
Imp. Dict. - n. A Turkish weight varying in amount in different localities. The batman formerly legal throughout the empire, now used in Constantinople and Smyrna, is 17 pounds avoirdupois. The great batman of Constantinople is 22.5 pounds; the little batman is 5.6 pounds. The batman of Tabriz is 6.4 pounds; the batman of Shiraz is 12.7 pounds; the batmanrei of Teheran is 28.3 pounds.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds.
- n. A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an orderly assigned to serve a British military officer
Etymologies
- Obsolete bat, packsaddle (from French bât, from Old French bast, from Late Latin bastum) + man.
Examples
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“My only problem with batman is that it's a great ride but you can never play it again.”
“Thus the batman is redeemed, the city is allowed to save itself (which is what the league of shadows wanted, yet batman is vindicated in achieveing the same goal without killing), and batman becomes something more than one man, a symbol and a legend, forever watching over gotham.”
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“Christian Bale: Solid as ever … this guy cant put a wrong foot down … he as batman is everything batman should be, brooding, honest, powerful conflicted heroic, tragic … everyone of those emotions and more are portrayed with the greatest justice …”
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“Catwoman needs to be redeemed after catwoman movie and they aren't taking the stories from any certain batman book its a combination of books.”
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“May 28th, 2008 2: 13 pm ET crap calling crap, crap. lol what a bunch of jokers. they make the joker in batman look like a genius.”
“The real fans will get to watch this movie, enjoying the fact that Miller is the guy who brought back batman from the dead (The Dark Knight Returns-graphic novel) and whose works also inspired the real BATMAN MOVIE (circa 1989)!”
“I want to talk about the new batman 3 villains. why riddler? why Harley Quinn? you can only put harley Quinn in batman 3 unless you bring the joker back in!!!!!”
“I think that the next batman should be like the the dark knight comics were batman is old and has guns.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘batman’.
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Words that are also movies
Unabashedly stolen from a comment made by courier12.
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seanahan A very litigious town. Aug 21, 2009
tbtabby The name of a town in Turkey. Aug 21, 2009
bilby "There was a daughter called Joan but she turned out badly too, started a child and went away, God knows where, and now he had no one to look after him but an old soldier called Faxy, a tall, stringy, ravaged-looking man, toothless and half mad Faxy had attached himself to Tom years before as a batman."
- Frank O'Connor, 'The Miser'. Sep 6, 2008