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championship
[ cham-pee-uhn-ship ]
noun
- the distinction or condition of being a champion:
to win a championship.
- advocacy or defense:
championship of the underdog.
- championships, a series of competitions or contests to determine a champion:
the tennis championships.
championship
/ ˈtʃæmpɪənˌʃɪp /
noun
- sometimes plural any of various contests held to determine a champion
- the title or status of being a champion
- support for or defence of a cause, person, etc
Other Words From
- pre·champi·on·ship noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of championship1
Example Sentences
For as large a crew as it takes to be successful on the football field, it’s almost impossible to win a championship without an elite quarterback.
Schottenheimer was an all-state football player and helped lead his high school’s basketball team to a state championship.
Let me lay this national championship and all these Elite Eights and Sweet 16s and Final Fours out there before you.
Beal passed the mark with a left-handed layup in the second quarter to join Hall of Famer Elvin Hayes, who spent nine seasons with Washington — including the championship campaign in 1978 — and racked up more than 27,000 in his career overall.
No one knew they would be Hall of Famers, but they had both won championships before and were the faces of their leagues.
Five years later she would be the first woman to win a Monster Jam Finals Championship in the freestyle category.
The Senate Majority Leader, a former boxer, was accused of trying to help the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
We certainly should not hold a ticker-tape parade for anybody else before then, no matter who wins what championship.
Maybe if there were a national championship on the line, things might be different.
On the way to the 1996 World Series, the Yankees met the Baltimore Orioles in the American League Championship Series.
Happily, if only incidentally, such self-defence involved the championship of the independence of Scotland.
Well, this only shows our valiant disregard of danger, our readiness of initiative, our championship of forlorn hopes.
Bob's championship saved her from that, and, thereafter, school changed straightway for June.
Celia had dwelt with pride on her father's championship of their cause.
They could find no other solution to her championship of the Parson.
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