championship
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈtʃæmpi.ənʃɪp/
Noun

championship

  1. (sports) A competition to determine a champion, especially the final of a series of competitions.
  2. The position of champion, or winner.
  3. Defense or support of some cause.
    His championship of civil rights eventually bore fruit.
    • 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473 ↗:
      They had also dropped their championship of Jones, who had given up hope of getting his farm back and gone to live in another part of the county.
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