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bather

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bathe  (b)
v. bathed, bath·ing, bathes
v.intr.
1. To take a bath.
2. To go into the water for swimming or other recreation.
3. To become immersed in or as if in liquid.
4. To sunbathe.
v.tr.
1. To immerse in liquid; wet.
2. To wash in a liquid.
3. To apply a liquid to for healing or soothing purposes: bathed the wound with iodine.
4. To seem to wash or pour over; suffuse: a room that was bathed in sunlight.
[Middle English bathen, from Old English bathian.]
bather n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.batherbather - a person who travels through the water by swimming; "he is not a good swimmer"
natator, swimmer
traveler, traveller - a person who changes location
floater - a swimmer who floats in the water
aquanaut, skin-diver - an underwater swimmer equipped with a face mask and foot fins and either a snorkel or an air cylinder
surfboarder, surfer - someone who engages in surfboarding
2.bather - a person who takes a bath
individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
Translations

bather [ˈbeɪðəʳ] n → bañista m/f
bather [ˈbeɪðəʳ] n → baigneur/euse
bather [ˈbeɪðəʳ] n → Badende(r) f(m)
bather [ˈbeɪðəʳ] n → bagnante m/f


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The water of our river is black or a very dark brown to one looking directly down on it, and, like that of most ponds, imparts to the body of one bathing in it a yellowish tinge; but this water is of such crystalline purity that the body of the bather appears of an alabaster whiteness, still more unnatural, which, as the limbs are magnified and distorted withal, produces a monstrous effect, making fit studies for a Michael Angelo.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
Tess still stood hesitating like a bather about to make his plunge, hardly knowing whether to retreat or to persevere, when a figure came forth from the dark triangular door of the tent.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
The trouble lay in that the bather had been a low, degraded, wretched female; for to the Solomon Islander all females are low, degraded, and wretched.
Adventure by London, Jack View in context
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