tennis
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Is tennis a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of tennis?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (sports) A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.Examples: "“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.”"uncountableusually
2. (dated) A match in this sport.Examples: "We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and tennises[…]"dateduncountableusually
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.Examples: "tennis-balls"; "His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis, […] were familiar to all London."obsoleteuncountableusually
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, dated) To play tennis.datedintransitive
2. (transitive) To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.Examples: "they shall have Intelligence or Espial upon the Enemy, will so drive him from one side to another, and tennis him amongst them"transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary