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Word entry · 6 letters

tennis

Best crossword clue

"Court game with rackets"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈtɛnɪs/Part of speech nounSorted einnstStarts with TEnds with S2 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

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

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • ““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.””
  • “One of Naomi Osaka's sponsors has been forced to apologise after depicting the Japanese tennis star, who is half-Haitian, with pale skin in an advertisement.”
  • “We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and tennises[…]”

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01“Court game with rackets”6 letters
02“Racket sport”6 letters

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