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Meanings of bather in English

Portuguese
nadadores
Catalan
nedador

A person who travels through the water by swimming.

        nadadores
        Usage of bather in English
        1
        On the other side of the wall the bather finished his ablutions.
        The Drums of Jeopardy
        2
        This was followed by the rustling of garments as the bather dressed.
        A Daughter of the Dons: A Story of New Mexico Today
        3
        He was eager to plunge into thought like a bather into water.
        Jean-Christophe, Volume I
        4
        There it paused as a bather pauses ere she steps into the fountain.
        The World's Desire
        5
        The bather, the shoulders of Orion-they all meant nothing, and were going nowhere.
        The Longest Journey
        6
        The bather cut off from his garments is a world-wide joke.
        The Red Planet
        7
        Would you not pull out a drowning bather because he will bathe again to-morrow?
        Warlock o' Glenwarlock: A Homely Romance
        8
        At this moment the bather strikes with his knife into the head of the monster.
        Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
        9
        Dion had a sensation of consciously giving himself, almost as a bather, to the sea.
        In the Wilderness
        10
        A bather plunged into the pool with a tremendous splash, but Paul did not waken.
        Mr. Prohack
        11
        Not one bather splashing about in the clear river water ventures across to the opposite bank.
        The Irish Times
        12
        The temperature of the water should be adapted to the age and strength of the bather.
        A Practical Physiology: A Text-Book for Higher Schools
        13
        Inspires a sense of love within the heart of the bather, which might just be contagious.
        A Wiccan Bible
        14
        And I presume he always does it; for they say no bather was ever drowned here.
        Elsie at Nantucket
        15
        The last bather came from the brook, refreshed by the cooling waters and adorned with flowers.
        White Shadows in the South Seas
        16
        A bath is clean when the bather has the wish to state and is full-filling everything.
        Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein / With Two Shorter Stories
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        Bather through the time
        Bather across language varieties
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