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championship

noun
/ˈtʃæm.pi.ən.ʃɪp/

Etymology

From champion + -ship.

  1. derived from campus — “a field, a plain, a place of action”
  2. derived from *kampijō✻ — “combat soldier”
  3. derived from *kampijō✻ — “fighter”
  4. derived from campio — “combatant in a duel, champion”
  5. derived from champion
  6. inherited from champioun
  7. suffixed as championship — “champion + ship”

Definitions

  1. A competition to determine a champion, especially the final of a series of competitions.

  2. The position of champion, or winner.

  3. Defense or support of some cause.

    • His championship of civil rights eventually bore fruit.
    • They had also dropped their championship of Jones, who had given up hope of getting his farm back and gone to live in another part of the county.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. the EFL Championship (the second-highest division of English football)

    2. the Scottish Championship (the second-highest division of Scottish football)

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA