champion
/ˈt͡ʃæm.pi.ən/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.62 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Acting as a champion; having defeated all one's competitors.
adj
Example Sentences
- "The defending champion is expected to defeat his challenger."
- "Curry, a four-time NBA champion with the Warriors, played for the Wildcats for three seasons between 2006 and 2009, where he was twice named conference player of the year."
- "Barcelona is eligible to play in FIFA Club World Cup as the champion of Europe."
- "Emmeline Pankhurst was a champion of women's suffrage."
- "Specific outcomes from this policy included the appointment of a Digital Champion to drive forward the efforts to get more of the excluded to be included."
- "champion of the poor"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em-der. Proto-Indo-European *kh₂ém-po-s Proto-Italic *kampos Latin campusbor. Proto-West Germanic *kamp Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Germanic *-janą Proto-West Germanic *-jan Proto-West Germanic *kampijan Proto-Germanic *-jô Proto-West Germanic *-jō Frankish *kampijōbor. Medieval Latin campiō Old French champiunbor. Middle English champioun English champion From Middle English champioun, from Old French champion, from Medieval Latin campio (“combatant in a duel, champion”), from Frankish *kampijō (“fighter”), from Proto-West Germanic *kampijō (“combat soldier”), a derivative of *kampijan (“to battle, to campaign”), itself a derivative of *kamp (“battlefield, battle”), ultimately a borrowing in West-Germanic from Latin campus (“a field, a plain, a place of action”). Cognate with Old English cæmpa, cempa (“soldier, warrior, champion”), Old High German kempfeo, kempfo (“fighter, warrior, champion”), whence archaic German Kempfe (“fighter”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈt͡ʃæm.pi.ən/
- British English: /ˈt͡ʃæm.pi.ən/
Usage
- British usage
- Transitive verb
- Obsolete