tennis ball
A hollow, bouncy rubber ball, pressurized and covered with usually yellow felt, used…A hollow, bouncy rubber ball, pressurized and covered with usually yellow felt, used in the game of tennis.
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1 sensesA hollow, bouncy rubber ball, pressurized and covered with usually yellow felt, used in the game of tennis.
Tennisball
те́ннисный мячtɛ́nnisnyj mjač
ball about the size of a fist used in playing tennis
Examples
18 sentencesWhere do you buy tennis balls?
How many tennis balls do you have?
I actually have over thirty tennis balls.
What do you do with old tennis balls?
deWas machst du mit alten Tennisbällen? — Waldelfe
I bought some tennis balls.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English teneys-ball (attested in the plural teneys-ballis), equivalent to tennFrom Middle English teneys-ball (attested in the plural teneys-ballis), equivalent to tennis + ball.
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Forms
plural: tennis balls| Singular | tennis ball |
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Word family
2 related wordsSee also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.