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/ˈtɛnɪs/ · noun
(sports) A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets..
“Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke[…]whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”
One of Naomi Osaka's sponsors has been forced to apologise after depicting the Japanese tennis star, who is half-Haitian, with pale skin in an advertisement.
We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and tennises[…]
tennis-balls
His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis, […] were familiar to all London.
they shall have Intelligence or Espial upon the Enemy, will so drive him from one side to another, and tennis him amongst them
Use tennis when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tennis means (sports) A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets..
Common synonyms include lawn tennis.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
“Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke[…]whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”
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