championship

«championship» in Mova's school dictionary: A competition to find the best player or team in a sport… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a championship, championships)

meaning for a pupil

1) A competition to find the best player or team in a sport or game: «the world championship». tree →

2) The title or position of being the champion: «She won the championship.» tree →

3) (formal) Strong support for a cause: «his championship of animal rights». tree →

sense in the lessons

In PE and sports news, championships are big tournaments: the World Championships, the Six Nations championship (rugby), the Championship (the second English football league). In everyday life there are school chess or spelling championships. Phrases: «win the championship», «championship title».

examples

• Our team won the county championship. tree →
• The swimming championship lasts three days. tree →
• She is training for the world championship. tree →
• The school chess championship is on Friday. tree →
• They lost in the final of the championship. tree →
• Leeds played in the Championship last season. tree →

note

champion + -ship. Countable. «The Championship» with a capital C is the name of an English football league. Related: champion (the winner), champ (informal).

In the corpora

• The game of conkers has a world championship held every year in England.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «championship» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.