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  batman

  noun

  a soldier assigned to an officer as a servant.
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  Batman

  noun

  John . 1801–39, a pioneer who selected the site of the city of Melbourne

batman

American  

[bat-muhn] / ˈbæt mən /

noun

batmen plural

1. a soldier assigned to an officer as a servant.

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Batman ¹ British  

/ ˈbætmən /

noun

1. John . 1801–39, a pioneer who selected the site of the city of Melbourne

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Batman ² British  

/ ˈbætˌmæn /

noun

1. a character in an American comic strip and several films who secretly assumes a batlike costume in order to fight crime

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batman ³ British  

/ ˈbætmən /

noun

1. an officer's personal servant in any of the armed forces

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Batman Cultural  

1. A comic strip character that first appeared in 1939. With his faithful sidekick Robin (the Boy Wonder), Batman fights crime in Gotham City, foiling evil villains such as the Joker and the Riddler.

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Batman's adventures have been widely adapted for television and a number of motion pictures.

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  plural

Etymology

Origin of batman

1745–55; short for bat-horse man, equivalent to bat < French bât packsaddle (< Vulgar Latin *bastum, noun derivative of *bastāre to carry < Late Greek *bastân, re-formation of Greek bastázein to lift, carry) + horse + man

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Meet the real batman, Michael Morbius, the so-called Living Vampire.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2022

"His batman voice im losing it????" a fan wrote.

From Fox News ● Oct. 16, 2021

There’s Bruce Wayne in an elegant tuxedo jacket with a not-so-discreet batman logo, carrying a leather backpack strapped to a skateboard.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 16, 2016

A man wearing batman underwear and a cape ran onto the field at Baltimore's Camden Yards during last Friday's opening game, and a second man invaded the field on Tuesday.

From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2012

Indeed, but for the tranquillity of the present setting, it is possible I would not have thought a great deal further about my behaviour during my encounter with the batman.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

But instead of helming “Troy,” starring a glistening Brad Pitt as Achilles, Nolan embarked on a genre-shifting Batman trilogy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

Its characters are not as sharply drawn, nor the confrontation with evil as urgent, as in Mr. Nolan’s Batman films; the emotions are not as deep as in “Interstellar” or “Dunkirk.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

Moreover, it was entirely separate from the character’s source comics, with no mention of Batman to be found.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026

Speaking on the blue carpet at the film's London premiere, he says the output from the studio, which owns characters including Batman, Wonder Woman and Shazam, has been "uneven".

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

“Your worst nightmare,” she said in a deep Batman voice.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

Moments later Gary is being ushered out in a blur of drivers and batmen and image-straighteners.

From The Guardian ● May 30, 2014

Or so the Leicestershire batmen made it appear in managing to lose all their first innings wickets in the space of 44.3 overs.

From The Guardian ● May 22, 2013

They are incarcerated in a luxurious villa, where the commandant is a former hotel manager and the guards behave like well-trained batmen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, calls the would-be defenders "batmen" and "hoodlums."

From Time Magazine Archive

Then the batmen were fetched in and given the presents from the Christmas Tree.

From Tell England A Study in a Generation by Raymond, Ernest