Badminton

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A sport played by volleying a shuttlecock back and forth over a high narrow net by means of a light, long-handled racket.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A racquet sport played indoors on a court by two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs of players (doubles), in which a shuttlecock is volleyed over a net and the competitions are presided by an umpire in British English and a referee in American English.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks.
  • n. A preparation of claret, spiced and sweetened.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An English outdoor game, similar to lawn-tennis, but played with shuttlecocks.
  • n. A summer beverage, properly a claret-cup made with soda-water instead of plain water and flavored with cucumber.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    court game   
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