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 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.
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.
Suggested Resources
tennis
The tennis symbol -- In this Symbols.com article you will learn about the meaning of the tennis symbol and its characteristic.
tennis
Song lyrics by tennis -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by tennis on the Lyrics.com website.
Matched Categories
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
The situation is terrible, all these things that are happening cause damage to tennis, to the desire sponsors might have to invest in our sport, to the excitement that kids might have in continuing to play.
Memorial Day weekend's very important to maintain that six feet distance and very important to have your mask with you in case that six feet distance can not be maintained, we are asking continuously for you all to be outside, to enjoy your Memorial Day weekend ; to play golf ; to hike as Dr.( Anthony) Fauci said ; to play tennis with marked balls -- and to be out with your families that you have been in the household with ; and even consider sharing socially distanced space as long as you have utensils that belong to individuals and that maybe can be thrown out immediately.
It's never the way you want to finish a match. I'm really sorry for Novak, we've played amazing battles all of my career. I want to keep my level (from) tonight. I was playing super good tennis. I'm happy to be back.
The ATP has played a central part in my life in so many ways and to be given this opportunity to serve as chairman is a true honor, i look forward to overseeing the future direction of the tour and building on the sport's global success and popularity at what is unquestionably one of the most exciting times in the history of men's professional tennis.
I saw that I could increase my tennis level in the right moments, in important moments, i want to continue, and I will try to do that tomorrow.
Popularity rank by frequency of use
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
- 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
Get even more translations for tennis »
Translation
Find a translation for the tennis definition in other languages:
Select another language:
- - Select -
- 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
- 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
- Español (Spanish)
- Esperanto (Esperanto)
- 日本語 (Japanese)
- Português (Portuguese)
- Deutsch (German)
- العربية (Arabic)
- Français (French)
- Русский (Russian)
- ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
- 한국어 (Korean)
- עברית (Hebrew)
- Gaeilge (Irish)
- Українська (Ukrainian)
- اردو (Urdu)
- Magyar (Hungarian)
- मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
- Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Italiano (Italian)
- தமிழ் (Tamil)
- Türkçe (Turkish)
- తెలుగు (Telugu)
- ภาษาไทย (Thai)
- Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
- Čeština (Czech)
- Polski (Polish)
- Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Românește (Romanian)
- Nederlands (Dutch)
- Ελληνικά (Greek)
- Latinum (Latin)
- Svenska (Swedish)
- Dansk (Danish)
- Suomi (Finnish)
- فارسی (Persian)
- ייִדיש (Yiddish)
- հայերեն (Armenian)
- Norsk (Norwegian)
- English (English)
Word of the Day
Would you like us to send you a FREE new word definition delivered to your inbox daily?
Citation
Use the citation below to add this definition to your bibliography:
"tennis." Definitions.net. STANDS4 LLC, 2022. Web. 26 Jun 2022. <https://www.definitions.net/definition/tennis>.
Discuss these tennis definitions with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In