Etymology
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From champion + -ship .
Pronunciation
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IPA (key ) : /ˈt͡ʃæmpi.ənʃɪp/
Audio (Southern England) (file )
championship (countable and uncountable , plural championships )
( sports ) A competition to determine a champion , especially the final of a series of competitions.
The position of champion, or winner .
Defense or support of some cause .
His championship of civil rights eventually bore fruit .
1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm [ … ] , London: Secker & Warburg , published May 1962 , →OCLC :They had also dropped their championship of Jones, who had given up hope of getting his farm back and gone to live in another part of the county.
Translations
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competition to determine a champion
Afrikaans: kampioenskap (af)
Albanian: kampionat (sq) m
Armenian: առաջնություն (hy) ( aṙaǰnutʻyun )
Asturian: campeonatu m
Azerbaijani: çempionat (az)
Basque: txapelketa (eu)
Belarusian: чэмпіяна́т m ( čempijanát )
Bulgarian: шампиона́т m ( šampionát )
Catalan: campionat (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 錦標賽 / 锦标赛 (zh) ( jǐnbiāosài )
Czech: mistrovství (cs) n
Danish: mesterskab n
Dutch: kampioenschap (nl) n
Esperanto: ĉampionado
Estonian: meistrivõistlused
Faroese: landskapping f
Finnish: mestaruusottelu (fi) , loppuottelu , mestaruuskilpailu
French: championnat (fr) m
Galician: campionato (gl) m
Georgian: ჩემპიონატი ( čemṗionaṭi )
German: Meisterschaft (de) f
Greek: πρωτάθλημα (el) n ( protáthlima )
Hebrew: אליפות f ( alifut )
Hungarian: bajnokság (hu)
Icelandic: meistaraflokksleikur m , meistaramót n
Ido: championokonkurso (io)
Indonesian: kejuaraan (id)
Irish: craobh f , ceannas m
Italian: campionato (it) m
Japanese: 選手権 (ja) ( せんしゅけん, senshuken ) , チャンピオンシップ ( chanpionshippu )
Kazakh: чемпионат ( çempionat )
Korean: 선수권 대회 ( seonsugwon daehoe ) , 챔피언십 ( chaempieonsip ) , 선수권 (ko) ( seonsugwon )
Kyrgyz: чемпионат (ky) ( cempionat )
Latvian: čempionāts m
Lithuanian: čempionatas m
Macedonian: првенство n ( prvenstvo )
Malay: kejohanan (ms)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: mesterskap (no) n
Occitan: campionat (oc) m
Polish: mistrzostwo (pl) n
Portuguese: campeonato (pt) m
Romanian: campionat (ro) m
Russian: чемпиона́т (ru) m ( čempionát )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: првенство
Roman: prvenstvo (sh)
Slovak: majstrovstvo n
Slovene: prvenstvo (sl) n
Spanish: campeonato (es) m
Swahili: ubingwa , taji (sw)
Swedish: mästerskap (sv)
Turkish: şampiyonluk (tr) , şampiyona (tr) , bökelik (tr)
Turkmen: çempionat
Ukrainian: чемпіона́т (uk) m ( čempionát )
Uzbek: chempionat (uz)
Vietnamese: chức vô địch
Welsh: bencampwriaeth
position of champion, or winner
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Etymology
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Compared to the preceding days, being the night before the burial, the night where most people show up in a wake.
championship
( chiefly Cebu , slang , humorous ) the night before the day of the burial ( see usage notes )
Usage notes
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Most wakes last up to nine days, equal to the number of novena days. They may last longer or briefer depending on the family's wishes or reasons.