tennis
Meanings
noun
- A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
- A match in this sport.
- 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
- To play tennis.
- To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.
name
- An unincorporated community in Finney County, Kansas, United States.
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Etymology
From Middle English tennys, teneys, tenis, from Old French tenez (second-person plural imperative of tenir (“to hold”)).
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