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Definition: Tennis |
TennisNoun1. 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 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tennis" was first used: 1345. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
19th Century Satire | 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. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
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A Grand Slam is a term in tennis used to denote winning all four of the following tournaments in the same year:
These tournaments are therefore also known as the Grand Slam tournaments, and rank as the most important tennis tournaments of the year in the public mind as well as in terms of the ranking points and prizemoney awarded for performances in them.
- Australian Open
- French Open
- Wimbledon
- U.S. Open
In 1938, Don Budge defeated John Bromwich in the Australian Open final, Roderick Menzel in the French Open, Henry Austin at the Wimbledon championships and Gene Mako in the U.S. Open to complete his Grand Slam.
In 1962, Rod Laver defeated Roy Emerson in the Australian and French Open finals, Marty Mulligan at the Wimbledon championships and Roy Emerson again in the U.S. Open to complete his Grand Slam.
In 1969, Rod Laver defeated Andres Gimeno in the Australian Open final, Ken Rosewall in the French Open, John Newcombe at the Wimbledon championships and Tony Roche in the U.S. Open to complete his second Grand Slam, the only person to ever do so.
In 1953, Maureen Connolly defeated Julia Sampson in the Australian Open final and Doris Hart three times in the finals of the French Open, the Wimbledon championships, and the U.S. Open to complete her Grand Slam.
In 1970, Margaret Smith Court defeated Kerry Melville in the Australian Open final, Helga Niessen in the French Open, Billie Jean King at the Wimbledon championships and Rosie Casals at the U.S. Open to complete her Grand Slam.
In 1988, Steffi Graf defeated Chris Evert in the Australian Open final, Natalia Zvereva in the French Open, Martina Navratilova at the Wimbledon championships and Gabriela Sabatini at the U.S. Open to complete her Grand Slam. Graf also defeated Sabatini to win the gold medal at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea and complete the "golden" slam.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Grand Slam in tennis."
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Real Tennis is the original racquet game.It is also known as Royal Tennis, Court Tennis (America), and jeu de paume (France).
The rules evolved over centuries from those of an earlier game, similar to Fives, Pelota or Handball, played since the 12th century by hitting a ball with the hand against the walls of monasteries. The rules stabilised around 1600. The game was popular among 18th and 19th century aristocrats, but there are still only a few dozen courts in the world.
The basic rules and scoring are similar to those of modern lawn tennis, which derives from real tennis. However real tennis has extra complexities in which the ball is played to bounce twice.
External link
- http://www.real-tennis.com/
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Real tennis."
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Tennis (officially called "lawn tennis" to distinguish it from royal tennis or court tennis, an older form of the game, played indoors) is a racquet sport played between either two players (singles) or two teams of two players (doubles). Tennis is played on a 78' x 27' (78' x 36' for doubles) court, which is divided in the middle by a net, such as that each side measures 39' in length.
Players attempt to hit a tennis ball with a tennis racquet such that it bounces in the opposition's side of the court and the opposition is unable to return it. A legal return is made by hitting the ball over the net, after not more than one bounce on one's side of the court. Each point is started by a player who initiates play by "serving" the ball into a designated area on the other side of the court. Tennis is an Olympic sport which is played in many countries around the world.
A tennis match is won by the first side to win 2 out of 3 sets or 3 out of 5 sets. A set is won by the first side to win 6 games, with at least 2 more games won than the other side. A game is won by the first side to win 4 points, with at least 2 more points won than the other side. Points are awarded as follows:
(These terms derive from French: see History of Tennis, below.)
- 0 points - "Love"
- 1 point - "Fifteen"
- 2 points - "Thirty"
- 3 points - "Forty"
The server's score is always announced first. If the server has won 2 points and the receiver has won 1 point, the score would be "Thirty-Fifteen". A player who wins a fourth point is awarded a game, unless each side previously had 3 points. This score, corresponding to "Forty-All" is called "Deuce". The player who wins the subsequent point has a score of "Advantage". If this player also wins the next point, game is awarded. Otherwise the score reverts to "Deuce".
In most tournaments, if the game score in a set reaches 6-6, a series of points called a tie-breaker takes place. The first side to win 7 points, with at least 2 more points than the other side, wins the tie-breaker. The score of the set is recorded as 7-6.
A tennis player usually has several types of swinging shots at his or her disposal: the forehand, backhand, volley, overhand smash and slice shot. When a player serves the ball to the other player, at the beginning of each point, he or she most commonly employs the overhand smash method, or the cut (slice) serve.
The backhand, useful for chasing shots from the opposite strong hand, can be employed with either one hand or two hands. Two hands offer the player more power, while one hand can utilize a slice shot, applying backspin on the tennis ball to fool the opponent. A small number of players, most notably Monica Seles, use two hands on both the backhand and forehand sides.
Tournaments are often organized by gender and number of players. Common tournament configurations include men's singles, women's singles, doubles (where two players of the same sex play on each side), and mixed doubles (with a member of each sex). There are also often tournaments for specific ages, such as for youth and seniors.
History of tennis
Unlike most modern sports, lawn tennis has a very short history, and its invention can be precisely dated. In December 1873, Major Walter Clopton Wingfield devised the game for the amusement of his guests at a garden party on his estate at Nantclywd, Wales. He based the game on the older sport of indoor tennis or Real tennis, which had been invented in France in the 12th century and played by French aristocrats down to the time of the French Revolution.
Wingfield borrowed both the name and much of the French vocabulary of royal tennis and applied them to his new game.
in 1874 Wingfield, seeing the commercial potential of the game, patented it, but he never succeeded in enforcing his patent. It spread rapidly among the leisured classes in Britain and the United States. It was first played in the US at the home of Mary Ewing Outerbridge on Staten Island, New York, in 1874.
- tennis comes from the French tenez, the imperative form of the verb tenir, to hold: it thus means "Hold!" This was a cry used by the player serving in royal tennis, meaning "I am about to serve!" (rather like the cry "Fore!" in golf).
- Racquet comes from the French raquette, although it ultimately derives from the Arabic rakhat, meaning the palm of the hand.
- Deuce comes from the French expression à deux le jeu, meaning "to both is the game" (that is, the two players have equal scores).
- love comes from the French l'oeuf, the egg: a humorous reference to the egg-shaped zero symbol
- The convention of numbering scores "15," "30" and "40" comes from the French quinze, treize and quatorze, which to French ears makes a euphonious sequence.
In 1881 the desite to play tennis competitively led to the establishment of tennis clubs. The first championships at Wimbledon, in London were played in 1877. In 1881 the United States National Lawn Tennis Association (now the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association) was formed to standardise the rules and organise competitions. The U.S. National Men's Singles Championship, now the U.S. Open, was first held in 1881 at Newport, Rhode Island. the U.S. National Women's Singles Championships were first held in 1887. The Davis Cup, an annual competition between national teams, dates from 1900.
In 1926 a group of American tennis players established a professional tennis circuit, playing exhibition matches to paying audiences. For 40 years professional and amateur tennis remained strictly separate: once a player had "turned pro" he or she could not compete at the major titles. In 1968, however, commercial pressures led to the abandonment of this principle and the "Open era" began, in which all players could compete in all tournaments and most players made their living from tennis.
Tennis was for many years predominantly a sport of the English-speaking world, dominated by the United States, Britain and Australia, although it was also popular in France: the French Open dates from 1891. Thus Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, the French Open and the Australian Open (dating from 1905) became and have remained the most prestigious events in tennis. Together these four events are called the "Grand Slam" (a term borrowed from bridge), and winning the Grand Slam is the highest ambition of most tennis players.
Since the beginning of the Open era and the establishment of an international professional tennis circuit, fed by revenues from the sale of television rights, tennis has spread all over the world and has lost its upper-class English-speaking image. Since the 1970s great champions have emerged from Germany (Boris Becker, Steffi Graf, Czechoslovakia (Ivan Lendl, Martina Navratilova), Sweden (Bjorn Borg), Brazil (Gustavo Kuerten), Russia (Yevgeni Kafelnikov) and many other countries. Recently African American players such as Venus and Serena Williams have become a force in the game.
Relevant articles
- List of female tennis players
- List of male tennis players
- Grand Slam in tennis
- Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon championships, U.S. Open
- Satellite tournaments
- International tennis federations
- Davis Cup
- Federation Cup
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tennis."
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At the 1896 Summer Olympics, two tennis events were contested.
Pos Athlete 1 John Boland (GBR) 2 Dionysios Kasdaglis (EGY) 3 Momcsilló Topavicza (HUN) 3 Konstantinos Paspatis (GRE)
Pos Athlete 3 John Boland (GBR) / Fritz Traun (GER) 3 Dimitrios Petrokokkinos (GRE) / Dionysios Kasdaglis (EGY) 3 George Robinson (GBR) / Edwin Flack (AUS) Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tennis at the 1896 Summer Olympics."
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At the 1900 Summer Olympics, four tennis events were contested.
Pos Athlete 1 Laurie Doherty (GBR) 2 Harold S. Mahoney (GBR/IRL) 3 Reginald Doherty (GBR) 3 Arthur B.J. Norris (GBR)
Pos Athlete 1 Great Britain Laurie Doherty, Reginald Doherty 2 United States of America/France Basil Spalding de Garmendia (USA), Max Décugis (FRA) 3 Great Britain Harold S. Mahoney, Arthur B.J. Norris 3 France André Prévost, Georges de la Chapelle
Pos Athlete 1 Charlotte Cooper (GBR) 2 Hélène Prévost (FRA) 3 Marion Jones (FRA) 3 Hedwiga Rosenbaumova (BOH)
Pos Athlete 1 Great Britain Charlotte Cooper, Reginald Doherty 2 France/Great Britain Hélène Prévost (FRA), Harold S. Mahoney (GBR/IRL) 3 United States of America/Great Britain Marion Jones (USA), Laurie Doherty (GBR) 3 Bohemia/Great Britain Hedwiga Rosenbaumova (BOH), Archibald Warden (GBR) Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tennis at the 1900 Summer Olympics."
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At the 1904 Summer Olympics, two tennis events were contested.
Pos Athlete 1 Beals Wright (USA) 2 Robert LeRoy (USA) 3 Alphonzo Bell (USA) 3 Edgar Leonard (USA)
Pos Athlete 1 United States of America Beals Wright, Edgar Leonard 2 United States of America Robert LeRoy, Alphonzo Bell 3 United States of America Clarence Gamble, Arthur Wear 3 United States of America Joseph Weat, Allen West Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tennis at the 1904 Summer Olympics."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
TENNIS | English | TENder Notification Information System | Public Administration |
| TEL | English | Tennis Electronic Lines | N/A |
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Synonym: TennisSynonym: lawn tennis (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Park, plaisance; national park, national forest, state park, county park, city park, vest-pocket park, public park (public) a; arbor; garden; (horticulture); pleasure ground, playground, cricketground, croquet ground, archery ground, hunting ground; tennis court, racket court; bowling alley, green alley; croquet lawn, rink, glaciarum, skating rink; roundabout, merry-go-round; swing; montagne Russe. |
Athletic sports, gymnastics; archery, rifle shooting; tournament, pugilism; (contention); sports; horse racing, the turf; aquatics; skating, sliding; cricket, tennis, lawn tennis; hockey, football, baseball, soccer, ice hockey, basketball; rackets, fives, trap bat and ball, la grace; pall-mall, tipcat, croquet, golf, curling, pallone, polo, water polo; tent pegging; tilting at the ring, quintain; greasy pole; quoits, horseshoes, discus; rounders, lacrosse; tobogganing, water polo; knurr and spell. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Well, it's kinda like table tennis, only with slightly smaller balls (Four Weddings and a Funeral; writing credit: Richard Curtis) No! Read it aloud, and if Mr. Emerson finds us frivolous, he can go and look for tennis balls (A Room with a View; writing credit: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. based on the novel by E.M. Forster.) Practicing tennis (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Hello Tribe fans, welcome to Major League Baseballsort of. Playing tennis today isI don't know (Major League II; writing credit: David S. Ward; R.J. Stewart) Will humming help your tennis game (The Hollywood Squares; writing credit: Gary Johnson) | |
Lyrics | Who needs a hobby like tennis or philately (Smut; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
Clever | A more expensive tennis racket will not make you a better player. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Celebrity Tennis (1974) Delitto al circolo del tennis (1969) The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969) Tennis Racquet (1949) | |
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 | A Las Vegas white, male college student, had his leg amputated above the knee when doctors discovered osteogenic sarcoma while he was a teen. He is seen here in a home bedroom setting, playing his guitar. He is presently disease-free and in college. He plays tennis, but is still shy about dating. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | Westbrook Sanatorium, Richmond, VA. : View of tennis court and lawn. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | U.S. Army. Base Hospital No. 93, Cannes, France. : Patients playing tennis. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Waterfront estate with courtyard, tennis courts, formal garden, kitchen garden, and orchard. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Woman and man playing tennis. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A tennis court in Chelsea. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Winter pastimes. They've flooded the tennis courts at the country club. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, full-length portrait, facing left, playing tennis. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Tennis court, Deer Park Hotel. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Tennis at Manhansett [sic] House, Shelter Island, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Tennis court 3" by Uschi Hering Commentary: "Racket & balls." | "Tennis ball 2" by Bjarte Kvinge Tvedt Commentary: "An old tennis ball. ." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Walter Cronkite | I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years. |
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | A sort of pleasant genial mantis that’s given up preying and taken up tennis instead |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Several of his patients have played football, and one, in particular, is an excellent tennis player. (references) | |
Tennis talks about how her judgment is changing and refers to the emotional outbursts that are common in this disease. (references) | ||
As an example, musculoskeletal conditions, such as fibromyalgia, myofascial pain, and tennis elbow, or epicondylitis, are conditions for which acupuncture may be beneficial. (references) | ||
Business | Tennis is almost exclusively for the wealthy in the Philippines. (references) | |
There are several golf and tennis clubs and social clubs available to the foreign community. (references) | ||
Taiwan is superior in sales of tennis balls; ice skates and roller skates; and table tennis balls and rackets. (references) | ||
Economic History | Malaysia | Golf and tennis clubs are very popular in Malaysia. (references) |
Switzerland | Another decrease also was reported in sales of tennis rackets. (references) | |
Poland | Moreover, investment in leisure activities such as ski lifts, tennis courts, outdoor and indoor swimming pools, golf courses and bowling centers is desperately needed. (references) | |
Human Rights | Brazil | Near the scene, they encountered 16-year-old tennis player Thomas Feltes Engel and two friends, who were returning to their car to pick up a cellular telephone. (references) |
Travel | Panama | Facilities usually include: business centers, swimming pools, tennis courts, fitness centers, clothing and souvenir shops, casinos, restaurants, coffee shops and bars. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | A one-bedroom furnished villa in a Western-standard residential compound will rent per year for $22,000 to $23,650; two bedrooms, $27,866 to $29,333; three bedrooms, $33,733 to $36,666; four bedrooms, $42,533 to $54,266. Residential compounds in Saudi Arabia often include a swimming pool, tennis courts, a club house, and eating facilities. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Matthew Perry | Oh, you know, I always had aspirations of being a tennis player, being a professional tennis player. |
Walter Cronkite | Very good. Very good. I'm still hobbling along with my torn Achilles tendon. Tennis injury, not gout. |
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| "Tennis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.40% of the time. "Tennis" is used about 2,500 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.4% | 2,435 | 3,682 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.84% | 46 | 50,285 |
| Noun (common) | 0.6% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (plural) | 0.16% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,500 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "tennis" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Tennis | Last name | 300 | 29,548 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "tennis": be good at tennis ♦ Court tennis ♦ covered tennis court ♦ deck tennis ♦ famous tennis player ♦ good at tennis ♦ indoor tennis center ♦ lawn tennis ♦ professional tennis ♦ professional tennis player ♦ real tennis ♦ royal tennis ♦ table tennis ♦ table tennis net ♦ tennis arm ♦ tennis ball ♦ tennis ball seam coil ♦ tennis camp ♦ tennis club ♦ tennis coach ♦ tennis court ♦ Tennis Elbow ♦ tennis lesson ♦ tennis match ♦ tennis player ♦ tennis pro ♦ tennis racket ♦ tennis racquet ♦ tennis shoe ♦ tennis shoes ♦ tennis shot ♦ tennis stroke ♦ tennis table ♦ tennis type serve ♦ the tennis circuit. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tennis": tennis-ball, tennis-ball-sized, tennis-club, tennis-court, tennis-courts, tennis-net, tennis-player, tennis-players, tennis-racket, tennis-related, tennis-shoe, tennis-star. | |
Ending with "tennis": table-tennis. | |
Containing "tennis": lawn-tennis court, table-tennis bat, table-tennis racquet, table-tennis table. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
tennis | 11,931 | tennis camp | 306 |
tennis racquet | 1,996 | tennis skirt | 304 |
wimbledon tennis | 1,588 | tennis clothes | 297 |
table tennis | 1,370 | tennis magazine | 296 |
tennis elbow | 1,305 | atp tennis | 295 |
french open tennis | 1,194 | tennis ticket | 291 |
tennis shoes | 992 | mario tennis | 291 |
us open tennis | 794 | us open tennis ticket | 280 |
tennis apparel | 780 | womens tennis apparel | 272 |
tennis net | 643 | tennis bracelet | 261 |
tennis warehouse | 607 | history tennis | 247 |
tennis rule | 578 | tennis lesson | 243 |
equipment for tennis | 544 | tennis tip | 238 |
prince tennis | 469 | virtua tennis | 237 |
womens tennis | 460 | wilson tennis | 236 |
pro tennis | 422 | woman tennis | 227 |
tennis court | 363 | head tennis | 224 |
tennis player | 348 | tennis raquets | 222 |
play tennis | 321 | diamond tennis bracelet | 220 |
tennis game | 312 | espn tennis | 202 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "tennis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | tennis. (various references) | |
Albanian | tenis. (various references) | |
Arabic | التنس كرة المضرب الأرضية. (various references) | |
Asturian | tenis. (various references) | |
Bemba | insapata shamangalo (tennis shoes). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | тенис. (various references) | |
Cebuano | tenis. (various references) | |
Chamorro | sapátos goma (tennis shoes). (various references) | |
Chinese | 网球, 網球 . (various references) | |
Cornish | tennys. (various references) | |
Czech | tenis (lawn tennis). (various references) | |
Danish | tennis. (various references) | |
Dutch | tennis. (various references) | |
Esperanto | teniso. (various references) | |
Faeroese | sports skógvar (tennis shoes). (various references) | |
Farsi | تنیس . (various references) | |
Finnish | tennis. (various references) | |
French | tennis. (various references) | |
Frisian | tennisskoen (tennis shoes). (various references) | |
German | Tennis. (various references) | |
Greek | τένισ, τένις, τέννισ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | טניס. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tenisz. (various references) | |
Icelandic | tennis. (various references) | |
Indonesian | tenis. (various references) | |
Inuktitut | anauligaaqtunnut isigaujak (tennis shoes). (various references) | |
Italian | tennis. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 硬式テニス , 庭球 , テキスト終結 (end of text, rough texture, technetium, technetronic, technical, technical center, technical foul, technical knockout, technical point, technical term, technician, Technicolor, technics, technique, techno cut, techno lady, techno mart, techno sound, technocracy, technocrat, technoeconomics, technologies, technology, technology art, technology assessment, technology gap, technology transfer, technomist, technonationalism, technopeasant, technophobia, technopolis, techno-pop, techno-science, techno-stress, technostructure, teddy, teddy bear, Tektronics, tenant, tennis court, tennis elbow, tennis-wear, tenor, tenor sax, test, test campaign, test case, test driver, test marketing, test pattern, test pilot, test rider, testament, tester, testing, test-mail, testosterone, test-set, Tetoron, tetrachloroethylene, tetracycline, Tetrapack, Tetrapod, Tetris, tetrodotoxin, texture). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | テニス , こうしきテニス, ていきゅう (low grade, regular holiday, vulgar). (various references) | |
Korean | 테니스. (various references) | |
Macedonian | tenis. (various references) | |
Manx | tennys, leddoge. (various references) | |
Maori | tenehi. (various references) | |
Papiamen | tènes. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ennistay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tênis (lawn tennis, sneakers, tennis shoes). (various references) | |
Provencal | tennís (tennis shoes). (various references) | |
Romanian | tenis (lawn tennis). (various references) | |
Russian | теннис (lawn tennis). (various references) | |
Samoan | tenisi. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tenis. (various references) | |
Spanish | tenis. (various references) | |
Swedish | tennis. (various references) | |
Tagalog | tenis. (various references) | |
Thai | เทนนิส. (various references) | |
Turkish | tenis. (various references) | |
Turkmen | tennis (r). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | теніс. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sân quần vợt (tennis-court), bóng quần vợt (tennis-ball), bóng bàn (tablet tennis). (various references) | |
Welsh | tenis. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Anglo-French | 1100-1600 | tenetz. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tennis": tennises, tennist, tennists. (additional references) | |
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"Tennis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mennis, tanis, tannis, tannit, teknik, tenanus, tenez, teni, tenis, tenist, tennies, tennil, tenniss, tennuis, tenny, tensin, Ternaes, tetnis, thennes, Tinneas, Toennies, tunnus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tennis" (pronounced te"ni's) |
| 4 | -e" n i' s | Bennis. |
| 3 | -n i' s | munis. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sennit. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-n-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: inset, neist, nines, nites, senti, stein, tines. | |
-2 letters: inns, nest, nets, nine, nite, nits, sent, sine, site, snit, tens, ties, tine, tins. | |
-3 letters: ens, inn, ins, its, net, nit, sei, sen, set, sin, sit, ten, tie, tin, tis. | |
-4 letters: en, es, et, in, is, it, ne, si, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-n-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: dentins, inanest, indents, intends, intense, intents, interns, intines, intones, invents, linnets, nesting, sennits, stanine, tennies, tennist, tenpins, tensing, tension, tinners, tunnies. | |
+2 letters: ancients, antigens, bonniest, canniest, dentines, desinent, dunnites, einstein, enations, entrains, entwines, finniest, funniest, gentians, ginniest, infantes, inkstone, insanest, insectan, insolent, instance, intenser, internes, intoners, intwines, kinetins, mannites, mentions, nescient, nestling, netizens, nettings, nineties, punniest, runniest, scenting, sennight, sentient, sentinel, sonatine, stanines, stannite, sunniest, tennises, tennists, tensions, ternions, thinners, thinness, thinnest, tininess, tinniest, tinstone, tontines, unsilent, untwines, vintners, wenniest. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
