champion
Meanings
- An ongoing winner in a game or contest.
- Someone who is chosen to represent a group of people in a contest.
- Someone who fights for a cause or status.
- Someone who fights on another's behalf.
- A particularly notable member of a plant species, such as one of great size.
- Acting as a champion; having defeated all one's competitors.
- Excellent; beyond compare.
- Excellent; brilliant; superb; deserving of high praise.
- To promote, advocate, or act as a champion for (a cause, etc.).
- To challenge.
- A surname.
- A village in Vulcan County, Alberta, Canada.
- A place in the United States:
- A ghost town in California.
- A township and unincorporated community therein, in Marquette County, Michigan.
- A township in Wilkin County, Minnesota.
- A census-designated place in Chase County, Nebraska.
- A town and hamlet in Jefferson County, New York.
- A township in Trumbull County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in the town of Green Bay, Brown County, Wisconsin.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em-der. Proto-Indo-European *kh₂ém-po-s Proto-Italic *kampos Latin campusbor. Frankish *kamp Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Germanic *-janą Frankish *-jan Frankish *kampijan Proto-Germanic *-jô Frankish *-jō Frankish *kampijōbor. Medieval Latin campiō Old French champiunbor. Middle English champioun English champion From Middle English champioun, from Old French champion, from Medieval Latin campio (“combatant in a duel, champion”), from Frankish *kampijō (“fighter”), from Proto-West Germanic *kampijō (“combat soldier”), a derivative of *kampijan (“to battle, to campaign”), itself a derivative of *kamp (“battlefield, battle”), ultimately a borrowing in West-Germanic from Latin campus (“a field, a plain, a place of action”). Cognate with Old English cæmpa, cempa (“soldier, warrior, champion”), Old High German kempfeo, kempfo (“fighter, warrior, champion”), whence archaic German Kempfe (“fighter”).