semifinal
semifinal noun: a playoff in the round with only four players or teams left, the stage before the final.
Noun
semifinal (plural semifinals)
- A playoff in the round with only four players or teams left, the stage before the final.
- Roger Federer extended his grasscourt streak to 57 matches with a victory over Marcos Baghdatis and will play Nicolas Kiefer in the semifinals of the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, Germany.2008 June 14, “Federer Extends Streak”, in The New York Times, sourced from The Associated Press, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022
- In the 1991 Wimbledon semifinal between Michael Stich and Stefan Edberg, there was just one service break in the entire match, and the guy whose serve was broken, Stich, ended up winning the match!2008, Pete Sampras, Peter Bodo, Pete Sampras: A Champion's Mind, published 2010, unnumbered page
- A competition that narrows a field of contestants (semifinalists) to a set of finalists, for a subsequent final.
semifinal meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Tagalog and Arabic
semifinal in Hindi
- सेमीफ़ाइनल
semifinal in Tamil
- அரை இறுதிச்சுற்று, அரையிறுதி ஆட்டம், அரை இறுதி, முன்னிறுதிச் சுற்று
semifinal in Tagalog
- competition
- malapangwakas, mala-pangwakas
semifinal in Arabic
- competition
- الدور قبل النهائي
More languagesFewer languages
- semifinal in Thai
- รองสุดท้าย rong-sùd-táai
- semifinal in Vietnamese
- bán kết
Examples of semifinal in a sentence
- With a win in the semifinals, the championship remained firmly in their sights.
- The team threw away its chance at the semifinals.
- Audiences will learn which couples will advance to next week's semifinals on Tuesnight's show.
Synonyms of semifinal
Forms of semifinal
| plural | semifinals |
|---|---|
| alternative form | semi-final |
Origin of semifinal
From Latin semifinalis, equivalent to semi- + final.
Words formed from semifinal
Words that rhyme with semifinal
- urinal
- final
- anticlinal
- interspinal
- officinal
- spinal
- synclinal
- bulbospinal
- clinal
- doctrinal
- extravaginal
- geosynclinal
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- intravaginal
- matutinal
- quarterfinal
- rhinal
- serotinal
- vaginal
- abdominovaginal
- affinal
- anginal
- anospinal
- anovaginal
- antevaginal
- audiospinal
- binal
- botulinal
- brachiovaginal
- carinal
- cerebellospinal
- cerebrospinal
- cervicovaginal
- ciliospinal
- circumvaginal
- clitourethrovaginal
- coeruleospinal
- colovaginal
- corticospinal
- craniospinal
- diencephalospinal
- encephalospinal
- endovaginal
- enterovaginal
- epispinal
- eugeosynclinal
- extraspinal
- hemispinal
- holospinal
- hypothalamospinal
- ileovaginal
- iliospinal
- infraspinal
- intervaginal
- intra-vaginal
- intraspinal
- ischiovaginal
- isoclinal
- mediastinal
- medullispinal
- medullospinal
Questions about semifinal
- What does semifinal mean?
- Semifinal means a playoff in the round with only four players or teams left, the stage before the final.
- What is semifinal in Hindi?
- Semifinal in Hindi is सेमीफ़ाइनल. See Semifinal meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is semifinal?
- Semifinal is a noun.
- What is the plural of semifinal?
- The plural of semifinal is semifinals.
Words near semifinal in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: semifinal (page history and authors); semifinal (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); semifinal (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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