badminton

English

Badminton player Peter Gade.

Etymology

Named after Badminton House, an estate in Gloucestershire owned by the Duke of Beaufort, where the game was first played in England.

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • IPA(key): /ˈbæd.mɪn.tən/

Noun

badminton (uncountable)

  1. 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.
  2. A cooling summer drink made with claret, sugar, and soda water.

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Czech

Noun

badminton m

  1. badminton

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /badməntɔn/, [ˈb̥ad̥məntˢʌn]

Noun

badminton c

  1. badminton

References


Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English badminton.

Pronunciation

  • (Netherlands) IPA(key): /ˈbɛt.mɪnˌtɔn/, /ˈbɛt.mɪnˌtən/
  • Hyphenation: bad‧min‧ton

Noun

badminton n (uncountable)

  1. badminton

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Faroese

Etymology

From English badminton.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpat.mɪn.tʰɔn]

Noun

badminton n (genitive singular badmintons, uncountable)

  1. badminton

Declension

Declension of badminton (singular only)
n3s singular
indefinite definite
nominative badminton badmintonið
accusative badminton badmintonið
dative badmintoni badmintoninum
genitive badmintons badmintonsins

French

Etymology

From English badminton

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bad.min.tɔn/
  • (file)
  • (file)

Noun

badminton m (uncountable)

  1. badminton

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Italian

Noun

badminton m (invariable)

  1. badminton

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English badminton

Noun

badminton m (definite singular badmintonen, uncountable)

  1. (sports) badminton

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English badminton

Noun

badminton m (definite singular badmintonen, uncountable)

  1. (sports) badminton

Derived terms

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

Noun

badminton m (uncountable)

  1. badminton

Further reading

  • badminton” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English badminton.

Noun

bádmintón, badmintón

  1. badminton
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