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Tennis - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Tennis : (noun)
1: a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a
ball back and forth over a net that divides the court
[syn: lawn tennis]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Tennis : \Ten"nis\, n. [OE. tennes, tenies, tenyse; of uncertain
origin, perhaps fr. F. tenez hold or take it, fr. tenir to
hold (see Tenable).]
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.
--Shak.
His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing
and playing tennis, . . . were familiar to all London.
--Macaulay.
Court tennis, the old game of tennis as played within
walled courts of peculiar construction; -- distinguished
from lawn tennis.
Lawn tennis. See under Lawn, n.
Tennis court, a place or court for playing the game of
tennis. --Shak.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Tennis : \Ten"nis\, v. t.
To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis.
[R.] --Spenser.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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