tennisとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.nɪs/
• 韻: -ɛnɪs

名詞

tennis (usually uncountable, 複数形 tennises)

1. (sports) A sport played by two players (または four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
   • 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:

     “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. (dated) A match in this sport.
   • 1918, Violet Hunt, The Last Ditch (page 95)

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

3. (obsolete) 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.
   • (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
   • (Can we date this quote?) Thomas Macaulay

     His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis, […] were familiar to all London.

派生語

関連する語

• tennis elbow

動詞

tennis (三人称単数 現在形 tennises, 現在分詞 tennising, 過去形および過去分詞形 tennised)

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

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

参考

• table tennis or ping pong

アナグラム

• innest, nestin, sennit, sinnet, tensin