championship
//ˈtʃæm.pi.ən.ʃɪp//
Forms
- Plural
- championships
Definitions
1.A competition to determine a champion, especially the final of a series of competitions.
2.The position of champion, or winner.
3.Defense or support of some cause.
- His championship of civil rights eventually bore fruit.
- 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.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2399
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em-der.
Proto-Indo-European *kh₂ém-po-s
Proto-Italic *kampos
Latin campusbor.
Proto-West Germanic *kamp
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Germanic *-janą
Proto-West Germanic *-jan
Proto-West Germanic *kampijan
Proto-Germanic *-jô