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martial art


martial art

noun

Definition of MARTIAL ART

: any of several arts of combat and self defense (as karate and judo) that are widely practiced as sport
— martial artist noun
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Examples of MARTIAL ART

  1. He was trained in the martial arts.

First Known Use of MARTIAL ART

1928

Rhymes with MARTIAL ART

à la carte, anti-art, applecart, beauty part, bleeding heart, Bonaparte, counterpart, egg and dart, fall apart, flying start, for one's part, heart-to-heart, Liddell Hart, lose one's heart, mini-mart, on one's part, open-heart, plastic art, poles apart, purpleheart, Purple Heart, running start, set apart, take apart, underpart, upperpart

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