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Webster 1913 Edition
Tennis
Ten′nis
,Noun.
[OE.
tennes
, tenies
, tenyse
; of uncertain origin, perhaps fr. F. tenez
hold or take it, fr. tenir
to hold (see Tenable
).] A play in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racket or with the open hand.
Shak.
His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing
tennis
, . . . were familiar to all London. Macaulay.
Court tennis
, the old game of tennis as played within walled courts of peculiar construction; – distinguished from
– lawn tennis
. Lawn tennis
. See under
– Lawn
, Noun.
Tennis court
, a place or court for playing the game of tennis.
Shak.
Ten′nis
,Verb.
T.
To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis.
[R.]
Spenser.
Webster 1828 Edition
Tennis
TEN'NIS
,Noun.
TEN'NIS
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
Tennis
Tennis
See also: tennis
German
Noun
Tennis n (genitive Tennis, no plural)
Derived terms
- Tennisarm, Tennisball, Tennisschläger
tennis
tennis
See also: Tennis
English
Noun
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.
- 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.
Translations
sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
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Derived terms
Related terms
See also
Verb
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?)
Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
tennis
Anagrams
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtenːis/
- Hyphenation: ten‧nis
Noun
tennis
Declension
| Inflection of tennis (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | tennis | tennikset | |
| genitive | tenniksen | tennisten tenniksien |
|
| partitive | tennistä | tenniksiä | |
| illative | tennikseen | tenniksiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | tennis | tennikset | |
| accusative | nom. | tennis | tennikset |
| gen. | tenniksen | ||
| genitive | tenniksen | tennisten tenniksien |
|
| 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 | |
Synonyms
- verkkopallo (dated)
Compounds
- tenniskenkä
- tenniskenttä
- tenniskyynärpää
- tennismaila
- tennispallo
- tennistossu
- tennisturnaus (tennis tournament)
French
Etymology
Borrowing from English tennis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /te.nis/
Noun
tennis m (plural tennis)
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtʰɛnːɪs/
- Rhymes: -ɛnːɪs
Noun
tennis m (genitive singular tenniss, no plural)
Declension
declension of tennis