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quidditch

/ˈkwɪdɪt͡ʃ/

quidditch noun: muggle quidditch. Also the alternative letter-case form of Quidditch.

Noun (1)

quidditch (uncountable)

  1. (broadly) Muggle quidditch

Noun (2) capitalized: Quidditch

Quidditch (uncountable)

  1. A fictional ball game played between two teams of seven players riding flying broomsticks, using four balls and six elevated ring-shaped goals.
    • Maybe you wish your parents were smarter or funnier or richer or better looking, but you might as well wish for a spot on the local Quidditch team.2003, “Universal Lifts the Veil on a Harry Potter Park”, in New York Times
    • Turn to the south, and you see the Central Acropolis, a five-story palace where the nobles might have sat to watch plaza ceremonies or the famous Quidditch-like Mayan ball games.2007 December 16, Ethan Todras-Whitehill, “In Tikal, Temples in the Mist”, in New York Times

Also used as

quidditch is also the alternative letter-case form of Quidditch.

Forms of quidditch

alternative formquidditch

Origin of quidditch

Coined by British author J. K. Rowling in her 1997 book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. In Quidditch Through the Ages, Rowling gives some etymological information, hinting that the word evolved from Queerditch (compound of queer + ditch), with some spelling variation as would be expected in real life Middle English, namely Kwidditch, Kweerditch.

Words formed from quidditch

Questions about quidditch

What does quidditch mean?
Quidditch means muggle quidditch.
What part of speech is quidditch?
Quidditch is a noun.
How do you pronounce quidditch?
Quidditch is pronounced /ˈkwɪdɪt͡ʃ/.

Words near quidditch in the dictionary

  1. Quiddists
  2. quiddit
  3. quidditas
  4. quidditative
  5. quidditatively
  6. quidditch
  7. quiddities
  8. quidditism
  9. quidditistic
  10. quiddits
  11. quiddity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quidditch (page history and authors); Quidditch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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