tennis
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- Stati Uniti//ˈtɛnɪs//
- Australia//ˈtenɪs//
A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
sostantivo
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A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
“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.
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desuetoA match in this sport.
We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and tennises[…]
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obsoletoAn 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.
tennis-balls
His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis, […] were familiar to all London.
Etimologia
From Middle English tennys, teneys, tenis, from Old French tenez (second-person plural imperative of tenir (“to hold”)).
verbo
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desuetoTo play tennis.
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To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.
they shall have Intelligence or Espial upon the Enemy, will so drive him from one side to another, and tennis him amongst them
Forme
- plurale
- tennises
- passato
- tennised
- participio passato
- tennised
- participio presente
- tennising
- 3ª persona singolare
- tennises
tennis · A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
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