lightweight – English noun declension

English noun forms of lightweight

Noun: lightweight
Singularlightweight
Plurallightweights

Sample Sentences

  • "Wait, is this about the other night when you two lightweights totally went on that bender?" [2005 August 23, Haley Hazelton, Misfile (webcomic), 2005-08-23:]
  • He mentions the "huge engine, lying on its side"—it was in fact a 2-2-2 weighing but 27 tons, something of a lightweight, even for 1868. [1958 May 26, Rev. A. W. V. Mace, “North Wales and the "Irish Mail"”, in Railway Magazine, page 309:]

Etymology

From light (“not heavy”, adjective) + weight (noun).

Verbs referencing "lightweight"

Dutch Nouns lichtgewicht, Polish Nouns waga lekka, German Nouns Leichtgewicht.