championship
English
Etymology
From champion + -ship.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃæmpi.ənʃɪp/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun
championship (countable and uncountable, plural championships)
- (sports) A competition to determine a champion, especially the final of a series of competitions.
- The position of champion, or winner.
- Defense or support of some cause.
- His championship of civil rights eventually bore fruit.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
- 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.
Translations
competition to determine a champion
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position of champion, or winner
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Cebuano
Etymology
Compared to the preceding days, being the night before the burial, the night where most people show up in a wake.
Noun
championship
- (chiefly Cebu, slang, humorous) the night before the day of the burial (see usage notes)
Usage notes
- Most wake last up to nine days, equal to the number of novena days. May be longer or briefer depending on the family's wishes or reasons.