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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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Noun Inflected Forms

• batmen
  plural

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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 are other accounts of an officer with shell shock having to be physically restrained by his "burly batman".

From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2016

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

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

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

AFP also met several demonstrators who wore Batman masks to avoid being identified.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Warner Bros. has pushed back the release of ‘The Batman Part II’ once again.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

However, a spokesman for the country house, owned by property tycoon Simon Halabi, said its "own Batman team has already been on the case" with surveys and ecological investigations.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

The Tiny Tim needledrops, an in-universe parody of Adam West’s Batman, the irony of its main character finding fulfillment as a fry cook — it all pointed toward Gen X’s wry, detached view of culture.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

He took the tightly folded rectangle from the notepad and set it on the table, and judging by the little bits of cartoony blue and gray, it looked like Batman, but I wasn't sure.

From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds

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

I shouted, and, observing that our batmen were hastily loading their rifles, ran for my revolver, determined to fire something into the air.

From Tell England A Study in a Generation by Ernest Raymond

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