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Tennis

//ˈtɛnɪs// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An unincorporated community in Finney County, Kansas, United States.
Noun
  1. 1
    A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets. uncountable, usually

    "“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. 2
    a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court wordnet
  3. 3
    A match in this sport. dated, uncountable, usually

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

  4. 4
    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. obsolete, uncountable, usually

    "tennis-balls"

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

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

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English tennys, teneys, tenis, from Old French tenez (second-person plural imperative of tenir (“to hold”)).

Etymology 2

From Middle English tennys, teneys, tenis, from Old French tenez (second-person plural imperative of tenir (“to hold”)).

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