tennis
//ˈtɛnɪs//
Forms
- Plural
- tennises
- present (v1)
- tennis
- past (v2)
- tennised
- past participle (v3)
- tennised
- present participle
- tennising
- 3rd person singular
- tennises
Definitions
1.A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
- 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.”
1.To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4018
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
Etymology
From Middle English tennys, teneys, tenis
From Old French tenez (second-person plural imperative of tenir (“to hold”)).