badminton

See also Badminton

English

Badminton player Peter Gade.

Etymology

Named after Badminton House, an estate in Gloucestershire owned by the Duke of Beaufort, where the game was first played in England.

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /ˈbædmɪtən/
• IPA: /ˈbædmɪntən/

Noun

badminton (uncountable)

1. A racquet sport played indoors on a court by two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs of players (doubles), in which a shuttlecock is volleyed over a net and the competitions are presided by an umpire in British English and a referee in American English.

Synonyms

• badders (UK, informal)

Translations

a racquet sport

Arabic: بدمينتون (ar) (badmintuun) m., تنس الريشة (ar) (tenis al-riisha) m. Armenian: բադմինտոն (hy) (badminton) Bulgarian: бадминтон (bg) (badminton) m. Catalan: bàdminton (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 羽毛球 (cmn) (yǔmáoqiú) Czech: badminton (cs) m. Finnish: sulkapallo (fi) French: badminton (fr) m. German: Badminton (de) n., Federball (de) m.

Greek: αντιπτέριση (el) Hungarian: tollaslabda (hu) Italian: badminton (it) m. Japanese: バドミントン (ja) (badominton) Macedonian: бадминтон (mk) (bádminton) m. Russian: бадминтон (ru) (badmintón) m. Slovak: bedminton (sk) m. Ukrainian: бадмінтон (uk) (badmintón) m. Welsh: badminton (cy) m.

See also

• Badminton on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Badminton on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons

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Czech

Noun

badminton m.

1. badminton

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /badməntɔn/, [ˈb̥ad̥məntˢʌn]

Noun

badminton c.

1. badminton

External links

• Badminton on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

From English

Noun

badminton m. (usually uncountable)

1. badminton

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Noun

badminton m. inv.

1. badminton