Definition of "swordswoman" [swordswoman]

• A woman who is skilled in the use of swords. (noun)
• A woman who is a fencer. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The swordswoman was to be the antagonizer, the sorceress the sympathizer."
• "She customarily wore two short swords crisscrossed over her back—even in public—and was rumored to be an exceptional swordswoman."
• "For every lily-white samsel he has to rescue, there's a remarkably tough chick who's either a swordswoman, a powerful queen or princess, a dominant sorceress, or just a woman with backbone."