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TENNIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court

Synonyms:

lawn tennis; tennis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("tennis" is a kind of...):

court game (an athletic game played on a court)

Meronyms (parts of "tennis"):

footfault (a fault that occurs when the server in tennis fails to keep both feet behind the baseline)

return (a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player)

set point ((tennis) the final point needed to win a set in tennis)

advantage ((tennis) first point scored after deuce)

service break (a tennis game won on the opponent's service)

Domain member category:

drop one's serve (lose a game in which one is serving)

ace (serve an ace against (someone))

game ((tennis) a division of play during which one player serves)

match point ((tennis) the final point needed to win a match (especially in tennis))

exchange; rally ((sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes)

fault ((sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area))

serve; service ((sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play)

forehand drive ((sports) hard straight return made on the forehand side (as in tennis or badminton or squash))

forehand; forehand shot; forehand stroke ((sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash))

drive ((sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash))

cut; undercut ((sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball)

break; break of serve ((tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving)

double fault ((tennis) two successive faults in serving resulting in the loss of the point)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tennis"):

professional tennis (playing tennis for money)

singles (tennis played with one person on each side)

doubles (tennis played with two players on each side)

court tennis; real tennis; royal tennis (an ancient form of tennis played in a four-walled court)

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 Context examples: 

I'd been writing letters once a week and signing them: "Love, Nick," and all I could think of was how, when that certain girl played tennis, a faint mustache of perspiration appeared on her upper lip.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)