tennis

Signification

Noun

1. A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
2. A match in this sport.
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.

Verb

1. To play tennis.
2. To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈtɛnɪs/

Étymologie

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