heavyweight
pronunciation
How to pronounce heavyweight in British English:
UK [ˈheviweɪt]
How to pronounce heavyweight in American English:
US [ˈheviweɪt]
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- Noun:
- an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds
- a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds
- a professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds
- a very large person; impressive in size or qualities
- a person of exceptional importance and reputation
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- Adjective:
- heaviest in a category or of a heavyweight category (more than 190 pounds for prizefighters)
Word Origin
- heavyweight
- noun and adjective, 1857 of horses; 1877 of fighters; from heavy (adj.) + weight. Figuratively, of importance, from 1928.
Example
- 1. The heavyweight competition is notorious for inflicting serious damage to participants .
- 2. Samsung life , another south korean industry heavyweight , hopes to come to market in may .
- 3. Victor is a heavyweight policy analyst , but one of his most impressive academic feats could have been to smuggle the name of the world 's favourite secret agent into the sober pages of the oxford review of economic policy .
- 4. The second challenger is a heavyweight .
- 5. But this would have to be a politically savvy heavyweight sympathetic to the cdu .