heavyweight

heavyweight
noun
(Boxing etc.) Schwergewicht, das; (person also) Schwergewichtler, der; (fig.) Größe, die
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adjective, noun ((a person) in the heaviest of the various classes into which competitors in certain sports (eg boxing, wrestling) are divided according to their weight: a heavyweight boxer.) das Schwergewicht
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ˈheavy·weight
I. n
1. SPORT Schwergewicht nt; (person) Schwergewicht nt, Schwergewichtler(in) m(f)
2. (fig) Schwergewicht nt, Autorität f, Größe f
a political/literary \heavyweight ein politisches/literarisches Schwergewicht
II. n modifier SPORT Schwergewichts-, im Schwergewicht nach n
\heavyweight boxer Schwergewichtler(in) m(f)
\heavyweight champion Meister(in) m(f) im Schwergewicht
III. adj
1. inv (weighty) schwer
\heavyweight cloth/paper schwerer Stoff/schweres Papier
2. (fig: important) person prominent, bedeutend; problem gewichtig
a \heavyweight report ein ernst zu nehmender Bericht
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['hevIweɪt]
1. n
1) (SPORT) Schwergewicht nt, Schwergewichtler(in) m(f)
2) (fig inf: influential person) großes Tier (inf)

the literary heavyweights — die literarischen Größen pl

2. adj
1) (SPORT)

heavyweight champion — Meister(in) m(f) im Schwergewicht

heavyweight boxer — (Boxer(in) m(f) im) Schwergewicht nt, Schwergewichtler(in) m(f)

heavyweight class — Schwergewicht nt

2) (fig inf: serious) issue, subject gewichtig; writer, commentator, interviewer ernst zu nehmend; position bedeutend; newspaper seriös
3) (= thick, heavy) cloth, plastic, paper schwer
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heavyweight
A s
1. überschwere Person oder Sache n, Schwergewicht n umg hum
2. SPORT Schwergewicht(ler) n(m):
at heavyweight im Schwergewicht
3. umg Prominente(r) m/f(m), großes oder hohes Tier
B adj
1. überschwer
2. SPORT Schwergewichts…
3. umg prominent
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noun
(Boxing etc.) Schwergewicht, das; (person also) Schwergewichtler, der; (fig.) Größe, die
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n.
Schwergewicht n.

English-german dictionary. 2013.

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