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world cup

world cup is the alternative letter-case form of World Cup.

Noun capitalized: World Cup

World Cup (plural World Cups)

  1. The FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial international competition of national teams in men's association football and the trophy awarded to the winning team.
    • Newark: LNER temporarily changed the name of Northgate station to Newark Southgate, to honour England's World Cup manager Gareth Southgate.2022 December 14, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Eastern”, in RAIL, number 972, page 24
  2. (usually qualified) Various similar competitions and trophies in other sports.
    • Women's World Cup; Rugby World Cup; Baseball World Cup
    • Yes, we lifted the World Cup in 2003 (I can still effortlessly visualise Jonny's drop kick), but the Boks have won four, the Kiwis three and the Aussies two. Our women, thank God, are so much better.2026 March 14, Robert Taylor, “It's Finally Time to Admit that the English Are Rubbish at Sport”, in The Telegraph
  3. The trophy awarded to the winner of such an event.

Forms of world cup

pluralworld cups
pluralWorld Cups

Origin of world cup

A calque of French Coupe du Monde (1930), originally a nickname for FIFA's Victory or Jules Rimet Trophy and the official name of the award since 1974.

Questions about world cup

What does world cup mean?
World cup means the FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial international competition of national teams in men's association football and the trophy awarded to the winning team.
What is world cup the alternative letter-case form of?
World cup is the alternative letter-case form of World Cup.
What part of speech is world cup?
World cup is a noun.
What is the plural of world cup?
The plural of world cup is world cups.

Words near world cup in the dictionary

  1. world champions
  2. world clock
  3. world clocks
  4. World Communion Sunday
  5. World Court
  6. world cup
  7. world cups
  8. world egg
  9. world eggs
  10. world ending
  11. world endings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: world cup (page history and authors); World Cup (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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