Tennis Definition

tĕnĭs
noun
A game, usually played outdoors, in which two players or two pairs of players using rackets hit a fabric-covered, hollow rubber ball back and forth over a net stretched across a marked, level, rectangular area (tennis court)
Webster's New World
A similar but more complex old indoor game (court tennis) in which the ball is bounced against the walls of a specially constructed court as well as hit over a net.
Webster's New World
Court tennis.
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Origin of Tennis

  • Middle English tenetz, tenyes court tennis from Anglo-Norman tenetz Old French tenez pl. imperative of tenir to hold from Latin tenēre detain

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Tennis Sentence Examples

  • They like their iPods, their laptops, their cars, their tennis shoes, and so on.

  • She'd worn either sandals or tennis shoes.

  • At a later period when he had grown fat he accounted for his skill in taking "cut balls" at tennis by saying that he was a very "painstaking man."

  • Slipping into a pair of tennis shoes, she headed for the kitchen.

  • The ballgame of the Mexicans, called tlachtli, was, like tennis, the pastime of princes and nobles; special courts were built for it, and the ball of india-rubber (perhaps the first object in which Europeans became acquainted with this valuable material) might not be touched by the hands, but was driven against the walls by blows of the knee or elbow, shoulder or buttock.

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Words Starting With

TTETEN

Words Ending With

SISNIS

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Words Starting With T and Ending With S

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With T6 Letter Words Ending With S