swordswoman

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.48 in modern English

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noun

"Arwen is portrayed as a valiant swordswoman in the Lord of the Rings films."
"Not for the first time she reflected that there were many drawbacks to being a swordswoman, not least of which was that men didn‘t take you seriously until you‘d actually killed them, by which time it didn‘t really matter anyway."

Etymology tree English sword English -s- Proto-Germanic *wībą Proto-West Germanic *wīb Old English wīf Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Old English wīfmann Middle English woman Middle English -woman English -woman English swordswoman From sword + -s- + -woman.

swordswomen (plural)

swordswomanship

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