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
Source: WordNet® 3.1
tennis (usually uncountable, plural tennises)
(sports) A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
(dated) A match in this sport.
(obsolete) 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.
tennis (third-person singular simple present tennises, present participle tennising, simple past and past participle tennised)
(intransitive, dated) To play tennis.
(transitive) To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.
• innest, nestin, sennit, sinnet, tensin
Source: Wiktionary
Ten"nis, n. Etym: [OE. tennes, tenies, tenyse; of uncertain origin, perhaps fr. F. tenez hold or take it, fr. tenir to hold (see Tenable).]
Definition: 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.
Ten"nis, v. t.
Definition: To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis. [R.] Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 May 2025
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
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