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Word definitions for championship in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Championships are awarded to dogs who have passed through a process of selection at dog shows. Traditionally, a championship was received at a conformation show , but championships are now offered for dogs who have attained a high degree of perfection in ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the status of being a champion; "he held the title for two years" [syn: title ] the act of providing approval and support; "his vigorous backing of the conservatives got him in trouble with progressives" [syn: backing , backup , patronage ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Championship \Cham"pi*on*ship\, n. State of being champion; leadership; supremacy.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context sports English) A competition to determine a champion, especially the final of a series of competitions. 2 The position of champion, or winner. 3 defense or support of some cause.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1812, "position of a champion," from champion (n.) + -ship . Meaning "competition to determine a champion" is recorded from 1893.
Usage examples of championship.
His victory at the North American Championship at Fairbanks began a fierce but gentlemanly rivalry with perennial champion and Alaskan Native George Attla.
October, when the beets were topped and delivered and Brumbaugh was on his way to another championship, the ax fell.
Asian family in a small town and your dad played on the 1964 Championship Dixieland High football team.
Unions of Morrisiana, by defeating the Atlantics in two out of three games in the latter part of the season of 1867, became entitled to the nominal championship, which during the next two seasons was shifted back and forth between the leading clubs of New York and Brooklyn.
March 17th, 1871, in New York City, and a code of rules were then adopted, the principal clause being the one suggested by the Athletic Club of Philadelphia, to the effect that the championship should belong to the club which won the greatest number of games in a series of five with every other contesting club.
Rockford Club is credited with only six games won and is given the last position in the championship race, several of the games with the Athletics being among those declared forfeited.
Bostons, who carried off the championship, took part in fifty-nine games, of which they won 38 and lost 11.
All of these were excellent assets for a judoka, and had led to his recent college-level judo championship.
The championship season was in full swing, and hopes were high this year for the Offaly hurlers.
By the time Lindeman confirmed that it had never been driven by Alain Prost, or anyone else of championship status, he also discovered that repairing the drive train was going to cost an additional thirty thousand.
Ping-pong championship popping in your brain, go slow and easy, watch your eyelids come down in a twenty-minute blink, go Quaalude crazy, swallow those pills with Cuervo, Lone Star, or that essence of East Texas corruption, Wild Turkey liquor.
He has written several books, reanalyzing championship games of the past.
Mexican Manuel Ortiz and Lou Salica of Brooklyn were battling for the bantamweight championship in Oakland.
Athletics held the nominal championship longer than any other club, and also claims the credit of not being defeated in any game played during 1864 and 1865, the feat of going through two successive seasons without a defeat being unprecedented at that time in base-ball history.
Boston Club held the championship in those early days for four successive seasons, and playing against them as I did I can bear witness to their strength and skill as ball players.