tennis
See also: Tennis
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Old French tenez, second-person imperative of tenir (“hold”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tennis (usually uncountable, plural tennises)
- (sports) A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
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1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:
- “Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke […] whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”
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- (dated) A match in this sport.
- 1918, Violet Hunt, The Last Ditch (page 95)
- We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and tennises […]
- 1918, Violet Hunt, The Last Ditch (page 95)
- (obsolete) An earlier game in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racquet or with the open hand.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- Thomas Macaulay (1800-1859)
- His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis, […] were familiar to all London.
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
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VerbEdit
tennis (third-person singular simple present tennises, present participle tennising, simple past and past participle tennised)
- (intransitive, dated) To play tennis.
- (transitive) To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
See alsoEdit
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
DanishEdit
NounEdit
tennis c (definite singular tennissen or tennisen)
- (uncountable, sports) tennis
Derived termsEdit
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
tennis n (uncountable)
- tennis (sport)
Derived termsEdit
- rolstoeltennis
- tafeltennis
- tennisarm
- tennisbaan
- tennisnet
- tennisracket
- tennissen
- tennisspeelster
- tennisspeler
- tennisveld
Etymology 2Edit
See etymology on the main entry.
VerbEdit
tennis
AnagramsEdit
EstonianEdit
FinnishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tennis
DeclensionEdit
| Inflection of tennis (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | tennis | tennikset | |
| genitive | tenniksen | tennisten tenniksien |
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| partitive | tennistä | tenniksiä | |
| illative | tennikseen | tenniksiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | tennis | tennikset | |
| accusative | nom. | tennis | tennikset |
| gen. | tenniksen | ||
| genitive | tenniksen | tennisten tenniksien |
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| partitive | tennistä | tenniksiä | |
| inessive | tenniksessä | tenniksissä | |
| elative | tenniksestä | tenniksistä | |
| illative | tennikseen | tenniksiin | |
| adessive | tenniksellä | tenniksillä | |
| ablative | tennikseltä | tenniksiltä | |
| allative | tennikselle | tenniksille | |
| essive | tenniksenä | tenniksinä | |
| translative | tennikseksi | tenniksiksi | |
| instructive | — | tenniksin | |
| abessive | tenniksettä | tenniksittä | |
| comitative | — | tenniksineen | |
SynonymsEdit
- verkkopallo (dated)
CompoundsEdit
- tenniskenkä
- tenniskenttä
- tenniskyynärpää
- tennismaila
- tennispallo
- tennistossu
- tennisturnaus (tennis tournament)
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tennis m (plural tennis)
Further readingEdit
- “tennis” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
IcelandicEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tennis m (genitive singular tenniss, no plural)
DeclensionEdit
declension of tennis