tennis

UK /ˈtɛnɪs/ US /ˈtɛnɪs/
noun 3verb 2name 1

Definitions

noun

1

A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.

“Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke[…]whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”

2

A match in this sport.

We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and tennises[…]

3

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-balls

His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis, […] were familiar to all London.

verb

1

To play tennis.

2

To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.

they shall have Intelligence or Espial upon the Enemy, will so drive him from one side to another, and tennis him amongst them

name

1

An unincorporated community in Finney County, Kansas, United States.

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