tennis

CEFRA1

/ˈtɛnɪs/

noun · verb

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A game in which players hit a ball over a net.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A match in this sport.

Examples

  • He's Argentinean and he gives tennis lessons.

  • Do you not play tennis?

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5

Also pronounced

  • /ˈtenɪs/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. 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.

  2. A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.

verb

Extra meaning

  1. To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.

More examples

In context

  • Which is better exercise—swimming or tennis?

  • One of Naomi Osaka's sponsors has been forced to apologise after depicting the Japanese tennis star, who is half-Haitian, with pale skin in an advertisement.

  • “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.”

Quick test

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

She won by serving the ball over the net with a racket in a professional blank competition.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English tennys, teneys, tenis, from Old French tenez (second-person plural imperative of tenir (“to hold”)).