Athletic: Definition and part of speech

Athletic

  1. a. Befitting an athlete; strong; muscular; robust; vigorous; as, athletic Celts.
  2. a. Of or pertaining to athletes or to the exercises practiced by them; as, athletic games or sports.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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