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say it: FETH-ur-wayt
featherweight is a noun meaning "an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 126 pounds". It is pronounced /ˈfɛðɚˌweɪt/ — FETH-ur-wayt. It carries 3 recorded senses.
an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 126 pounds
weighs 126-139 pounds
a professional boxer who weighs between 123 and 126 pounds
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for featherweight come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.