lawn tennis
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- noun
- /lɔn ˈtɛnɪs/
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tenis
- These outdoor games include strolling, table tennis, football, lawn tennis, badminton, jogging, basketball, handball, weight lifting, volleyball, and swimming.
- table and lawn tennis
Examples
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The fourth "Olympic Games" were held, a women's basketball championship took place, and the Orellana Cups were awarded to the winners of a lawn tennis tournament.
Academic text (1994) -
Social group interaction activities include group games such as table tennis, lawn tennis, and football for fun.
Academic text (2007) -
Organized sports like table tennis, badminton, lawn tennis, basketball, and volleyball were common to both sexes.
Academic text (2007) -
At the summer camp, children enjoyed playing lawn tennis on the lush green courts every afternoon.
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She has been training hard to compete in the lawn tennis tournament at the local club this weekend.
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During the picnic, we set up a small net to play lawn tennis and had a great time with friends.
Synonyms
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1.0
A game where two or four players use rackets to hit a ball over a net
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'tennis played on a lawn/grass' is directly and compositionally derived from 'lawn' (mowed grass area) + 'tennis' (the sport). This noun+noun pattern denotes a variety or setting of the sport and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand it.
Etymology
Lawn tennis comes from the 1800s in England, when people began playing tennis on the grass in front of country houses called lawns. So the name simply means the game 'tennis' played on a lawn, which is why it refers to the sport played on grass.