tennis court
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1.4
- noun
- /ˈtɛnɪs kɔrt/
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pista de tenis
- Down below, on a tennis court, girls in white dart around like petals scattered by the wind.
- include tennis courts
- parks and tennis courts
- tennis courts and swimming pools
Consider the allocation, let's say at Harvard, of the best tennis courts or squash courts.
- Consider the allocation, let's say at Harvard, of the best tennis courts or squash courts.
- So the lining of our gut is actually the same surface area as a tennis court in there.
- We had a day at Zarro, and then our grand finale was on the tennis courts at Pikes.
- You just really want a cheap HOA and let the tenant handle their own cable, let them handle their own Internet, let them handle their own tennis courts, let them handle their own restaurants.
- If you took the alveolar air sacs of the lungs and spread them out, you would easily cover a tennis court.
- Now, the best way to compare this, we have the lining of our intestines is the same surface area as a tennis court.
- And you'd need, I think he worked out in order to survive, you'd need about two tennis courts worth of skin just laid out.
- But we don't have a tennis court sized rocket to launch the web Space Telescope on.
Examples
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After the rain stopped, we were able to return to the tennis court for a game.
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The players arrived early to practice on the tennis court before their match.
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Call me later, but this house has a pool and a tennis court.
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What happened on the tennis court last night?
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We were walking off the tennis court.
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Paul wants to build a tennis court over there next month.
Fiction book (1995) -
There was a tennis court next door to the farmers market.
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On the clay tennis courts, I taught one daughter how to hit a decent serve.
Fiction book (1995) -
See you on the tennis court at 12:30.
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The plan included parks, tennis courts, and houses set back from the street, allowing for lawns and gardens.
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
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1.1
An area marked for playing sports like tennis or basketball
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1.8
An area marked and prepared for sports, like a field or court
How Professional
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an area marked for playing the game of tennis' is directly and compositionally derived from 'tennis' (the sport) + 'court' (a marked playing area). This noun-noun compound follows a straightforward, cross-linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Tennis court comes from the game tennis and the word court, which means an enclosed place with lines and a net where people play. So, tennis court means 'an area marked with lines and a net for playing the game of tennis'.