Martina Navratilova
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- proper noun
- /mɑːrˈtiːnə nævˈrætɪloʊvə/
- Martina Navratilova dominated women's tennis in the 1980s, winning nine Wimbledon singles titles.
Examples
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Did you know that Martina Navratilova won nine Wimbledon titles?
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Sports historians often compare Serena Williams and Martina Navratilova when discussing the greatest female tennis players.
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Martina Navratilova became a U.S. citizen after defecting from Czechoslovakia in 1975.
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I admire Martina Navratilova for her incredible achievements in tennis.
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Martina Navratilova dominated women's tennis in the 1980s, winning nine Wimbledon singles titles.
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Sports historians often compare Serena Williams and Martina Navratilova when discussing the greatest female tennis players.
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I admire Martina Navratilova for her incredible achievements in tennis.
Synonyms
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A tennis player born in Czechoslovakia who later became an American and won nine Wimbledon singles titles
Surface Forms
Morphology
Martina + Navratilova
This is a personal name (proper noun) whose meaning is encyclopedic rather than compositional; knowing the tokens 'Martina' and 'Navratilova' does not let a B1 learner infer that she is a Czech‑American tennis legend. Recognition requires world knowledge or exposure to the person, not knowledge of constituent word meanings. Therefore the expression is not transparently derivable from its parts.
Etymology
Martina Navratilova is the name of a Czech-born tennis player who left Czechoslovakia to live in the United States and later became a U.S. citizen. She was famous for a fast serve-and-volley game and won nine Wimbledon singles titles, so her name now means 'one of the greatest female tennis players'.