stuntman

See also: stunt man and stuntmän

English

Alternative forms

• stunt man

Etymology

Etymology tree

English stunt

Proto-Indo-European *mon-

Proto-Germanic *mann-

Proto-West Germanic *mann

Old English mann

Middle English man

Middle English -man

English -man

English stuntman

From stunt + -man.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈstʌnt.mæn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʌntmæn

Noun

stuntman (plural stuntmen)

1. In films, someone who performs stunts that are deemed too dangerous or physically difficult for the main actors to attempt.

   During filming a stuntman was injured as he jumped from a railway bridge onto the roof of a train passing below.

Synonyms

• stunt performer

Hypernyms

Hypernyms of stuntman

• man
• stuntperson

Related terms

• stunt double
• stuntwoman

Translations

one who performs stunts

• Albanian: kaskader m
• Armenian: կասկադյոր (hy) (kaskadyor)
• Azerbaijani: kaskadyor
• Belarusian: каскадзёр m (kaskadzjór), дублёр m (dubljór)
• Bulgarian: каскадьо́р m (kaskadjór), дубльо́р (bg) m (dubljór)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 特技演員 / 特技演员 (zh) (tèjì yǎnyuán)

• Czech: kaskadér m
• Danish: stuntman c
• Dutch: stuntwerker (nl) m
• Estonian: kaskadöör
• Finnish: sijaisnäyttelijä (fi), stuntti (fi)
• French: cascadeur (fr) m
• Galician: dobre (gl), especialista (gl)
• Georgian: კასკადიორი (ḳasḳadiori)
• German: Stuntman (de) m, Kaskadeur (de) m
• Greek: κασκαντέρ (el) m or f (kaskantér)
• Hebrew: פַּעֲלוּלָן (he) m (pa'lulán)
• Hungarian: kaszkadőr (hu)
• Italian: cascatore (it) m, stuntman (it) m
• Japanese: スタントマン (ja) (sutantoman)
• Kazakh: каскадер (kaskader)
• Korean: 스턴트맨 (seuteonteumaen)
• Kyrgyz: каскадёр (kaskadyor)
• Latvian: kaskadieris m
• Lithuanian: kaskadininkas m
• Macedonian: каскаде́р m (kaskadér)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stuntmann m

  Nynorsk: stuntmann m

• Polish: kaskader (pl) m
• Portuguese: dublê (pt) m or f by sense (Brazil), duplo (pt) m (Portugal)
• Romanian: cascador (ro) m
• Russian: каскадёр (ru) m (kaskadjór), дублёр (ru) m (dubljór)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: каска̀де̄р m, ду̀бле̄р m

  Latin: kaskàdēr (sh) m, dùblēr (sh) m

• Slovak: kaskadér m
• Slovene: kaskader m
• Spanish: especialista de escenas peligrosas m, especialista de escenas de alto riesgo m, especialista de proezas m
• Swedish: stuntman (sv) c, kaskadör c
• Turkish: dublör (tr)
• Ukrainian: каскаде́р (uk) m (kaskadér), дубле́р m (dublér)
• Uzbek: kaskadyor (uz)
• Vietnamese: diễn viên đóng thế

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English stuntman. Attested since 1939. Equivalent to stunt +‎ man.

Noun

stuntman c

1. a stuntman

Declension

Declension of stuntman

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	stuntman	stuntmans
	definite	stuntmannen	stuntmannens
plural	indefinite	stuntmän	stuntmäns
	definite	stuntmännen	stuntmännens

See also

• stand-in

References

• “stuntman”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “stuntman”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “stuntman”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)