championship

See also: Championship

English

Etymology

From champion +‎ -ship.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃæmpi.ənʃɪp/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (US):

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Noun

championship (countable and uncountable, plural championships)

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.

   • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

     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.

Derived terms

• League Championship Series
• prechampionship

 

Translations

competition to determine a champion

• Afrikaans: kampioenskap (af)
• Albanian: kampionat (sq) m
• Armenian: առաջնություն (hy) (aṙaǰnutʻyun)
• Asturian: campeonatu m
• Azerbaijani: çempionat (az)
• Basque: txapelketa (eu)
• Belarusian: чэмпіяна́т m (čempijanát)
• Bulgarian: шампиона́т m (šampionát)
• Catalan: campionat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 錦標賽／锦标赛 (zh) (jǐnbiāosài)

• Czech: mistrovství (cs) n
• Danish: mesterskab n
• Dutch: kampioenschap (nl) n
• Esperanto: ĉampionado
• Estonian: meistrivõistlused
• Faroese: landskapping f
• Finnish: mestaruusottelu (fi), loppuottelu, mestaruuskilpailu
• French: championnat (fr) m
• Galician: campionato (gl) m
• Georgian: ჩემპიონატი (čemṗionaṭi)
• German: Meisterschaft (de) f
• Greek: πρωτάθλημα (el) n (protáthlima)
• Hebrew: אליפות f (alifut)
• Hungarian: bajnokság (hu)
• Icelandic: meistaraflokksleikur m, meistaramót n
• Ido: championokonkurso (io)
• Indonesian: kejuaraan (id)
• Irish: craobh f, ceannas m
• Italian: campionato (it) m
• Japanese: 選手権 (ja) (せんしゅけん, senshuken), チャンピオンシップ (chanpionshippu)
• Kazakh: чемпионат (çempionat)
• Korean: 선수권 대회 (seonsugwon daehoe), 챔피언십 (chaempieonsip), 선수권 (ko) (seonsugwon)
• Kyrgyz: чемпионат (ky) (cempionat)
• Latvian: čempionāts m
• Lithuanian: čempionatas m
• Macedonian: првенство n (prvenstvo)
• Malay: kejohanan (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mesterskap (no) n

• Occitan: campionat (oc) m
• Polish: mistrzostwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: campeonato (pt) m
• Romanian: campionat (ro) m
• Russian: чемпиона́т (ru) m (čempionát)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: првенство

  Roman: prvenstvo (sh)

• Slovak: majstrovstvo n
• Slovene: prvenstvo (sl) n
• Spanish: campeonato (es) m
• Swahili: ubingwa, taji (sw)
• Swedish: mästerskap (sv)
• Turkish: şampiyonluk (tr), şampiyona (tr), bökelik (tr)
• Turkmen: çempionat
• Ukrainian: чемпіона́т (uk) m (čempionát)
• Uzbek: chempionat (uz)
• Vietnamese: chức vô địch
• Welsh: bencampwriaeth

position of champion, or winner

• Catalan: campionat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冠軍／冠军 (zh) (guànjūn)

• Danish: mesterskab n
• Dutch: kampioenschap (nl) n
• Esperanto: ĉampioneco
• Finnish: mestaruus (fi)
• French: champion (fr) m, championne (fr) f
• German: Meisterschaft (de) f
• Hebrew: אליפות f (alifut)
• Ido: championeso (io)
• Japanese: 優勝 (ja) (yūshō), 王座 (ja) (ōza)
• Kazakh: біріншілік (bırınşılık)
• Polish: mistrzostwo (pl) m
• Romanian: campion (ro) m, campioană (ro) f
• Russian: пе́рвенство (ru) n (pérvenstvo), зва́ние чемпио́на n (zvánije čempióna)
• Turkish: şampiyonluk (tr)

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• Ido: ^{(please verify)} championeso (io)

Cebuano

Etymology

Compared to the preceding days, being the night before the burial, the night where most people show up in a wake.

Noun

championship

1. (chiefly Cebu, slang, humorous) the night before the day of the burial (see usage notes)

Usage notes

• Most wakes last up to nine days, equal to the number of novena days. They may last longer or briefer depending on the family's wishes or reasons.