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tennis

Pronunciation: /ˈtɛnɪs/

The English word “tennis” has 5 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
  2. A match in this sport.
  3. 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.

verb

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

Etymology

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

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