What does TENNIS mean?
Definitions for TENNIS
ˈtɛn ɪsten·nis
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word TENNIS.
Princeton's WordNet
tennis, lawn tennisnoun
a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court
Wiktionary
tennisnoun
A sport played by either two or four players with strung racquets, a 2½" (6.4 cm) ball, and a net approximately 3 feet high on a clay, grass, or cement court.
Etymology: tenez, second-person imperative of tenir.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Tennisnoun
A play at which a ball is driven with a racket.
Etymology: this play is supposed by Stephen Skinner to be so named from the word tenez, take it, hold it, or there it goes, used by the French when they drive the ball.
The barber’s man hath been seen with him, and the old ornament of his cheek hath already stuffed tennis balls. William Shakespeare.
There was he gaming, there o’ertook in’s rowse,
There falling out at tennis. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.A prince, by a hard destiny, became a tennis ball long to the blind goddess. James Howell, Vocal Forest.
It can be no more disgrace to a great lord to draw a fair picture, than to play at tennis with his page. Henry Peacham.
The inside of the uvea is blacked like the walls of a tennis court, that the rays falling upon the retina may not, by being rebounded thence upon the uvea, be returned again; for such a repercussion would make the sight more confused. Henry More, Antidote against Atheism.
We conceive not a tennis ball to think, and consequently not to have any volition, or preference of motion to rest. John Locke.
We have no exedra for the philosophers adjoining to our tennis court, but there are alehouses. Scriblerus Club .
To Tennisverb
To drive as a ball.
Etymology: from the noun.
Those four garisons issuing forth upon the enemy, will so drive him from one side to another, and tennis him amongst them, that he shall find no where safe to keep his feet in, nor hide himself. Edmund Spenser, on Ireland.
Wikipedia
Tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object of the game is to manoeuvre the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. The player who is unable to return the ball validly will not gain a point, while the opposite player will.Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society and at all ages. The sport can be played by anyone who can hold a racket, including wheelchair users. The original forms of tennis developed in France during the late Middle Ages. The modern form of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century as lawn tennis. It had close connections both to various field (lawn) games such as croquet and bowls as well as to the older racket sport today called real tennis.The rules of modern tennis have changed little since the 1890s. Two exceptions are that until 1961 the server had to keep one foot on the ground at all times, and the adoption of the tiebreak in the 1970s. A recent addition to professional tennis has been the adoption of electronic review technology coupled with a point-challenge system, which allows a player to contest the line call of a point, a system known as Hawk-Eye.Tennis is played by millions of recreational players and is a popular worldwide spectator sport. The four Grand Slam tournaments (also referred to as the majors) are especially popular: the Australian Open, played on hardcourts; the French Open, played on red clay courts; Wimbledon, played on grass courts; and the US Open, also played on hardcourts.
ChatGPT
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object of the game is to play the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. The player who is unable to return the ball will not gain a point, while the opposite player will.
Webster Dictionary
Tennisnoun
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
Tennisverb
to drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Tennis
ten′is, n. an ancient game for two to four persons, played with ball and rackets within a building specially constructed for the purpose: lawn-tennis (q.v.), a modern imitation of the former.—ns. Tenn′is-ball, a ball used in the game of tennis; Tenn′is-court, a place or court for playing at tennis. [Skeat suggests O. Fr. tenies, pl. of tenie, a fillet—L. tænia.]
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Tennis
A game played by two or four players with rackets and an elastic ball on a level court divided by a low net.
The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
TENNIS
A game in which the participants enjoy a racket on the side and raise the deuce over a net, while the volleys drive them from set to set and love scores as often as it's mentioned.
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
TENNIS
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Tennis is ranked #17789 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Tennis surname appeared 1,574 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Tennis.
93.5% or 1,472 total occurrences were White.
3% or 48 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.2% or 19 total occurrences were of two or more races.
1% or 17 total occurrences were Black.
0.7% or 12 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
0.3% or 6 total occurrences were Asian.
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British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'TENNIS' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3526
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'TENNIS' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3523
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'TENNIS' in Nouns Frequency: #1453
Anagrams for TENNIS »
nestin
sennit
sinnet
tensin
innest
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of TENNIS in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of TENNIS in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of TENNIS in a Sentence
In tennis we say there is no off weeks but you really have to get some balance in your life to recover mentally as well as physically, the players that schedules themselves right, don’t burn themselves out and can have a long and prosperous career.
This tournament marks the start of my favorite part of the season, i know that I have to play better than what I did. I'm working to be playing well again as soon as possible. If I did not believe in my chances, I would not be here. I would be doing other stuff, because I already achieved all the things I needed to do in my career. I still have the passion and motivation to keep playing tennis.
Tennis is, for me, the only place where I feel alive, where I feel that I can live and that I don't think about the news. I don't think about bad things. I only think about the ball, that I'm on the court, that I just do my job, it's such a big chance to do this, to be able to have everything, what I have right now, every second to be able to play tennis. It's just amazing. You know, what a chance after all, what a chance to be a tennis player.
100 %... I wanted to play just as much the last time the Olympics were around, i feel like if I'm there, I've got a genuine shot at winning a medal, one. I'd love to be there with the other athletes representing Tennis Australia, two.
It was some of the better tennis I played throughout the whole week, garbine forced me to play at that level. It was a great final and I’m happy with the progression of the level of tennis through the week.
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Translations for TENNIS
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- tennisAfrikaans
- تنس, التنسArabic
- tennisAzerbaijani
- тэнісBelarusian
- тенисBulgarian
- ཏན་ནེ་སི་སྤོ་ལོ།Tibetan Standard
- tennisCatalan, Valencian
- tenisCzech
- tennisDanish
- TennisGerman
- αντισφαίριση, τένιςGreek
- tenisoEsperanto
- tenisSpanish
- تنیسPersian
- tennisFinnish
- tennisFrench
- teanasScottish Gaelic
- tenisGalician
- tanisHausa
- טניסHebrew
- टेनिसHindi
- teniszHungarian
- թենիսArmenian
- tennisInterlingua
- tenisIndonesian
- tennisIcelandic
- tennisItalian
- 庭球, テニスJapanese
- ჩოგბურთიGeorgian
- теннисKazakh
- ಟೆನ್ನಿಸ್Kannada
- 테니스Korean
- теннисKyrgyz
- tenissLatvian
- тенисMacedonian
- ടെന്നീസ്Malayalam
- टेनिसMarathi
- tenisMalay
- tenisMaltese
- tennisNorwegian
- tennisDutch
- tennisNorwegian Nynorsk
- tenis, tenis ziemnyPolish
- tênisPortuguese
- теннисRussian
- लानम्Sanskrit
- ténis, те́нисSerbo-Croatian
- tenisSlovak
- ténisSlovene
- tenisiAlbanian
- tennisSwedish
- வரிப்பந்தாட்டம், வலைப்பந்துTamil
- టెన్నిస్Telugu
- теннисTajik
- เทนนิสThai
- tennisTurkmen
- tenisTurkish
- тенісUkrainian
- ٹینسUrdu
- tennisUzbek
- quần vợtVietnamese
- טעניסYiddish
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