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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  

/ ˈbætmən /

noun

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

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Batman ³ 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 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

American comic book giants DC Comics are suing La Liga side Valencia over the use of their club logo, which the company says depicts a bat just like that sported by superhero batman.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2014

I'm just a plain old batman gone civvy.'

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

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

One video, which his campaign said neither he nor formal surrogates made, portrayed him as Batman lobbing tomatoes at Bass, who was dressed as the Joker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

She was mocked in a series of AI videos made by Pratt supporters, many of them reposted by Pratt, including one that portrayed her as the Joker from Batman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

The tests were given by a man who looked, to me, like the Joker in the Batman comics.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Black and eight subalterns with their trusty batmen left Leven for the South and they were lost to us for a month.

From The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 by Morrison, F. L.