What does tennis mean?
Definitions for tennis
ˈtɛn ɪsten·nis
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word tennis.
Princeton's WordNet
tennis, lawn tennis(noun)
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
tennis(Noun)
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.
Webster Dictionary
Tennis(noun)
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
Tennis(verb)
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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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
Nestin
Sennit
Sinnet
Tensin
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
It wasn't as tight as I was used to, i've played tennis for over 30 years, so I'm so used to( being) incredibly fit.
I think I played well today. But I knew that I had to because I've played her twice before already and it was on hard court and then I didn't know what to expect today so I tried to stay as focused as I could, i'm in a really good place right now. I feel like I'm having fun playing tennis again which is always a good thing and I always play well if I have that mentality.
We're both coming off injuries but I think it will be a really good match, i'm going to play my best tennis against Roger Federer.
I still play probably 10 or 15 nights a year in public… I don’t practice much tennis I play maybe one or two times a month but I still get to watch it, i run a foundation in Austin and that picks up a lot of my time.
I think she's playing great. I think since a while she's just progressing up in the rankings and in the results, so I think she deserves to be in the final with the tennis she has been showing.
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Translations for tennis
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- 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
- テニス, 庭球Japanese
- ჩოგბურთიGeorgian
- теннисKazakh
- ಟೆನ್ನಿಸ್Kannada
- 테니스Korean
- теннисKyrgyz
- tenissLatvian
- тенисMacedonian
- ടെന്നീസ്Malayalam
- टेनिसMarathi
- tenisMalay
- tenisMaltese
- tennisNorwegian
- tennisDutch
- tennisNorwegian Nynorsk
- tenis ziemny, tenisPolish
- tênisPortuguese
- теннисRussian
- लानम्Sanskrit
- те́нис, ténisSerbo-Croatian
- tenisSlovak
- ténisSlovene
- tenisiAlbanian
- tennisSwedish
- வரிப்பந்தாட்டம், வலைப்பந்துTamil
- టెన్నిస్Telugu
- теннисTajik
- เทนนิสThai
- tennisTurkmen
- tenisTurkish
- тенісUkrainian
- ٹینسUrdu
- tennisUzbek
- quần vợtVietnamese
- טעניסYiddish
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