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The world's oldest tennis tournament, since 1877
Answer for the clue "The world's oldest tennis tournament, since 1877 ", 9 letters:
wimbledon
Alternative clues for the word wimbledon
- Annual English sports event that begins today, and a hint to this puzzle's theme
- Ashe won one
- A suburb of London and the headquarters of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club where annual international tennis championships are played on grass courts
- June spectacular
- Arena for 64 diagonal
- Finish course for intending politicians in French city
Word definitions for wimbledon in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Wimbledon usually refers to: Wimbledon, London , a district of southwest London The Championships, Wimbledon , a lawn tennis tournament, one of the four Grand Slam championships It may also refer to:
Gazetteer
Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 237 Housing Units (2000): 126 Land area (2000): 0.462576 sq. miles (1.198066 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.462576 sq. miles (1.198066 sq. km) FIPS code: 86620 Located within: North ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
district of South London, Old English Wunemannedune (10c.), probably "Wynnman's hill," from proper name *Wynnman . The -m- is intrusive; the -n- to -l- substitution was common in Anglo-French. Used metonymically from 1895 for the lawn tennis championships ...
Usage examples of wimbledon.
She had asked him particularly when he should be back that night He named the train, which reached Wimbledon a little after ten.
Now Howard, trying to ease the tension, asked Baker when he would be moving from Wimbledon into the new flat he was buying in north-west London.
The mention of Wimbledon reminded Wexford of Verity Bate who had said that her parents and, at one time, the Sampsons had lived in that suburb.
Dover in plastic bags or key rings with Wimbledon locker-room numbers.
Now she looked especially bad, with her frozen face and swollen lips, and he didn't intend to open his eyes or interrupt his favorite dream of being a ball boy at Wimbledon.
Sergeant Lewis sat back helplessly in his chair, feeling like a man just presented with the Wimbledon Challenge Cup after losing the last point of the tennis match.
The Honorable Geoffrey Niles, Wimbledon, Surrey, United Kingdom, Earth.
That was the moment when the committee at the All England Tennis Club, sitting in the secretary's office at Wimbledon, had gathered to discuss a special problem.
She moved in with some guy from Wimbledon she met at Towering Inferno.