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soft tennis

soft tennis noun: a variant of tennis, developed in Japan, differing in the tennis ball used, from regular tennis (lawn tennis), having a softer rubber ball.

Noun

soft tennis (uncountable)

  1. A variant of tennis, developed in Japan, differing in the tennis ball used, from regular tennis (lawn tennis), having a softer rubber ball.

Origin of soft tennis

Phono-semantic matching of Japanese ソフトテニス (sofuto tenisu), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from soft + tenis.

Questions about soft tennis

What does soft tennis mean?
Soft tennis means a variant of tennis, developed in Japan, differing in the tennis ball used, from regular tennis (lawn tennis), having a softer rubber ball.
What part of speech is soft tennis?
Soft tennis is a noun.

Words near soft tennis in the dictionary

  1. soft swap
  2. soft swaps
  3. soft tack
  4. soft target
  5. soft targets
  6. soft tennis
  7. soft thing
  8. soft things
  9. soft tick
  10. soft ticks
  11. soft tissue

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