Tennis : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Tennis	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Tennis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tennis n a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court Synonym(s): tennis, lawn tennis
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tennis \Ten"nis\, v. t. To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis. [R.] --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tennis \Ten"nis\, n. [OE. tennes, tenies, tenyse; of uncertain origin, perhaps fr. F. tenez hold or take it, fr. tenir to hold (see {Tenable}).] A play in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racket or with the open hand. --Shak. His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis, . . . were familiar to all London. --Macaulay. {Court tennis}, the old game of tennis as played within walled courts of peculiar construction; -- distinguished from lawn tennis. {Lawn tennis}. See under {Lawn}, n. {Tennis court}, a place or court for playing the game of tennis. --Shak.