man of action
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.14 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who acts or reacts boldly, without hesitation, and often without forethought, especially in situations which are adventurous or dangerous.
Example Sentences
- ""I have heard that the Scots are good men of war," said Hordle John. "For axemen and for spearmen I have not seen their match," the archer answered. […] "And the French?" asked Alleyne, to whom the archer's light gossip had all the relish that the words of the man of action have for the recluse."
- "The third was a man of action, a combatant, a bold and impatient executive, breathing fire and steel."
- "The world found out last week who led the daring, destructive noonday air raid on Japan last month[:] […] pugnacious Brigadier General James Harold Doolittle, 45, speed flyer, engineer, scholar and man of action."
- "Patrick Leigh Fermor […] was a man of letters but also, like his hero Byron, a man of action—a war hero and a restless adventurer, who even swam the Hellespont when he was 69."