Swordplay

Synonyms for "swordplay" (11 found)

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Closest matches (3)

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Noun(3 words)
fencingplayrhetorical duel

Related words (5)

Noun(5 words)
stage combatswashbucklingswordsmanshiptheatrical fencingverbal sparring

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

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More general

7 entries
actioncombat sportdebatemartial artperforming artsrhetorictheater

More specific

10 entries
duelingepigrammatic rebuttalfencingrapier fencingretort strategysabre fencingsparringstage fencingtheatrical duelingverbal sparring

Collocations

6 entries
dueling swordplayhistorical swordplaymedieval swordplayswordplay manualswordplay repertoireswordplay technique

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

1 entries

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

In The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After, we find our four heroes battling against evil forces with a combination of stunning swordplay, unmatched bravado, unbelievable ingenuity, and several strokes of great fortune.

Source: tatoeba (12019401)

His expertise at swordplay made his acting in the part of Hamlet very believable.

Source: wiktionary

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