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kumite

kumite noun: the aspect of karate in which a person trains against an adversary, using the techniques learned from the kihon and kata.

Noun

kumite (countable and uncountable, plural kumites)

  1. The aspect of karate in which a person trains against an adversary, using the techniques learned from the kihon and kata.
    • Baghbani won gold in kumite – a karate discipline – at the Pan Am Games and the USA Karate Open in Las Vegas in July.2009 August 20, Kevin McGran, “Players tell officials to take radical changes back to the drawing board”, in Toronto Star

Forms of kumite

pluralkumites

Origin of kumite

From Japanese 組手.

Questions about kumite

What does kumite mean?
Kumite means the aspect of karate in which a person trains against an adversary, using the techniques learned from the kihon and kata.
What part of speech is kumite?
Kumite is a noun.
What is the plural of kumite?
The plural of kumite is kumites.

Words near kumite in the dictionary

  1. kumis
  2. kumises
  3. Kumishi
  4. kumiss
  5. kumisz
  6. kumite
  7. kumites
  8. Kumiyama
  9. Kumjoinus
  10. kumkum
  11. kumkuma

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