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tennises

tennises is the plural of tennis.

tennises is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tennis.

Meaning of tennis

Noun

tennis (usually uncountable, plural tennises)

  1. (usually) A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
    • “Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke[…]whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court
  2. (dated, usually) A match in this sport.
    • We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and tennises[…]1918, Violet Hunt, The Last Ditch, page 95
  3. (obsolete, usually) An earlier game in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racquet or with the open hand.
    • tennis-balls1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

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Questions about tennises

What is tennises the plural of?
Tennises is the plural of tennis.

Words near tennises in the dictionary

  1. tennisballs
  2. tennisdom
  3. tennised
  4. tenniser
  5. tennisers
  6. tennises
  7. tennish
  8. tennising
  9. tennislike
  10. tennisman
  11. tennismen

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