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cup final

cup final

6 2.7
Final match in a cup competition that decides the winner
  • noun
translation icon : final de copa
  • Make the Open Cup final the cherry on top of the MLS season.
  • Stanley Cup final
  • World Cup final
  • Davis Cup final

The FA Youth Cup final has great history.

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Examples

  • You may remember that was the day of the Women's World Cup final in the Rose Bowl.

  • As a boy growing up in the slums of Brazil, he saw his father weep after their country's loss in the 1950 World Cup final.

  • The FA Youth Cup final has great history.

  • Eight out of the 11 Spanish players who played in the World Cup final in 2010 also play for Barcelona.

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  • I think a Voyageurs Cup final could do the same for Canada.

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  • Then the America's Cup final will be held in August 2013.

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  • The Davis Cup final this weekend between Spain and the Czech Republic will be a tie.

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  • They lost the FA Cup final.

  • Perhaps most impressive is that the 1999 Women's World Cup final between the U.S. and China was watched by 40 million people, making a women's game the most watched soccer match in U.S. television history.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Fans eagerly awaited to see which team would win the cup final this year.

Synonyms

final
vscup final
191 2.0

The last match in a tournament that decides the winner

is limited to knockout competitions in specific tournament formats
big game
vscup final
50 2.3

An important sports event like a championship final that many people watch

is narrower and names only matches that decide the whole tournament

How Important

cup final
6 2.7
semi
16 3.0
quarterfinal
20 3.4
first round
131 2.5

Surface Forms

cup final singular
cup finals plural

Morphology

cup + final

The meaning 'the final match in a cup competition' is directly compositional from 'cup' (the tournament or trophy context) and 'final' (the concluding match). This noun+noun construction is a regular, cross-linguistically common pattern in sports vocabulary, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will almost certainly infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

Cup final comes from the simple image of one last game for a cup. The cup is the trophy teams want and the final is the last match, so the phrase means the game that decides the 'winner' who takes the cup.