tennis

Old French tenez, second-person imperative of tenir (“hold”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.nɪs/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnɪs

tennis (usually uncountable, plural tennises)

1. (sports) A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
   • 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:

     “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. (dated) A match in this sport.
   • 1918, Violet Hunt, The Last Ditch (page 95)

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

3. (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.
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
   • (Can we date this quote?) Thomas Macaulay

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

• tennis elbow

tennis (third-person singular simple present tennises, present participle tennising, simple past and past participle tennised)

1. (intransitive, dated) To play tennis.
2. (transitive) To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.

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• table tennis or ping pong

• innest, nestin, sennit, sinnet, tensin

tennis m (uncountable)

1. tennis

tennis c (definite singular tennissen or tennisen)

1. (uncountable, sports) tennis

• tennisbane
• tennisbold
• tennisketsjer

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.nəs/

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• Hyphenation: ten‧nis

Borrowed from English tennis.

tennis n (uncountable)

1. tennis (sport)

• rolstoeltennis
• tafeltennis
• tennisarm
• tennisbaan
• tennisnet
• tennisracket
• tennissen
• tennisspeelster
• tennisspeler
• tennisveld

See the etymology of the main entry.

tennis

1. first-person singular present indicative of tennissen
2. imperative of tennissen

• intens

tennis (genitive tennise, partitive tennist)

1. tennis

From English tennis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtenːis/, [ˈt̪e̞nːis̠]
• Hyphenation: ten‧nis

tennis

1. tennis

• verkkopallo (dated)

• tenniskenkä
• tenniskenttä
• tenniskyynärpää
• tennismaila
• tennispallo
• tennistossu
• tennisturnaus (tennis tournament)

Borrowed from English tennis.

• IPA^(key): /te.nis/

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tennis m (plural tennis)

1. (usually uncountable) tennis
2. (countable, Europe, dated) sneaker

• “tennis” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʰɛnːɪs/
• Rhymes: -ɛnːɪs

tennis m (genitive singular tenniss, no plural)

1. tennis

• tennisolnbogi
• tennisspaði

• steinn

tennis m (invariable)

1. tennis

• tennistavolo
• tennista
• tennistico

tennis m (definite singular tennisen) (uncountable)

1. (sports) tennis

• bordtennis
• tennisbane
• tennisspiller

tennis m (definite singular tennisen) (uncountable)

1. (sports) tennis

• bordtennis
• tennisbane

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tennis c (definite singular tennisen)

1. (uncountable, sports) tennis

• tennisracket