championship

English

Etymology

From champion +‎ -ship.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃæmpi.ənʃɪp/

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Noun

championship (countable and uncountable, plural championships)

1. (sports) A competition to determine a champion, especially the final of a series of competitions.
2. The position of champion, or winner.
3. Defense or support of some cause.

   His championship of civil rights eventually bore fruit.

   • 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:

     They had also dropped their championship of Jones, who had given up hope of getting his farm back and gone to live in another part of the county.

Translations

competition to determine a champion

• Afrikaans: kampioenskap (af)
• Albanian: kampionat (sq) m
• Armenian: առաջնություն (hy) (aṙaǰnutʿyun)
• Asturian: campeonatu m
• Azerbaijani: çempionat (az)
• Basque: txapelketa (eu)
• Belarusian: чэмпіяна́т m (čempijanát)
• Bulgarian: шампиона́т m (šampionát)
• Catalan: campionat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 錦標賽／锦标赛 (zh) (jǐnbiāosài)

• Czech: mistrovství (cs) n
• Danish: mesterskab n
• Dutch: kampioenschap (nl) n
• Esperanto: ĉampionado
• Estonian: meistrivõistlused
• Faroese: landskapping f
• Finnish: mestaruusottelu (fi), loppuottelu, mestaruuskilpailu
• French: championnat (fr) m
• Galician: campionato (gl) m
• Georgian: ჩემპიონატი (čemṗionaṭi)
• German: Meisterschaft (de) f
• Greek: πρωτάθλημα (el) n (protáthlima)
• Hebrew: אליפות‎ f (alifut)
• Hungarian: bajnokság (hu)
• Icelandic: meistaraflokksleikur m, meistaramót n
• Ido: championokonkurso (io)
• Indonesian: kejuaraan (id)
• Irish: craobh f, ceannas m
• Italian: campionato (it) m
• Japanese: 選手権 (ja) (せんしゅけん, senshuken), チャンピオンシップ (chanpionshippu)
• Kazakh: чемпионат (çempionat)
• Korean: 선수권 대회 (seonsugwon daehoe), 챔피언십 (chaempieonsip), 선수권 (ko) (seonsugwon)
• Kyrgyz: чемпионат (ky) (çempionat)
• Latvian: čempionāts m
• Lithuanian: čempionatas m
• Macedonian: првенство n (prvenstvo)
• Malay: kejohanan (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mesterskap (no) n

• Occitan: campionat (oc) m
• Polish: mistrzostwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: campeonato (pt) m
• Romanian: campionat (ro) m
• Russian: чемпиона́т (ru) m (čempionát)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: првенство

  Roman: prvenstvo (sh)

• Slovak: majstrovstvo n
• Slovene: prvenstvo (sl) n
• Spanish: campeonato (es) m
• Swahili: ubingwa, taji (sw)
• Swedish: mästerskap (sv)
• Turkish: şampiyonluk (tr), şampiyona (tr), bökelik (tr)
• Turkmen: çempionat
• Ukrainian: чемпіона́т (uk) m (čempionát)
• Uzbek: chempionat (uz)
• Vietnamese: chức vô địch
• Welsh: bencampwriaeth

position of champion, or winner

• Catalan: campionat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冠軍／冠军 (zh) (guànjūn)

• Danish: mesterskab n
• Dutch: kampioenschap (nl) n
• Esperanto: ĉampioneco
• Finnish: mestaruus (fi)
• French: champion (fr) m, championne (fr) f
• German: Meisterschaft (de) f
• Hebrew: אליפות‎ f (alifut)
• Ido: championeso (io)
• Japanese: 優勝 (ja) (yūshō), 王座 (ja) (ōza)
• Kazakh: біріншілік (bırınşılık)
• Polish: mistrzostwo (pl) m
• Romanian: campion (ro) m, campioană (ro) f
• Russian: пе́рвенство (ru) n (pérvenstvo), зва́ние чемпио́на n (zvánije čempióna)
• Turkish: şampiyonluk (tr)

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• Ido: ^{(please verify)} championeso (io)

Cebuano

Etymology

Compared to the preceding days, being the night before the burial, the night where most people show up in a wake.

Noun

championship

1. (chiefly Cebu, slang, humorous) the night before the day of the burial (see usage notes)

Usage notes

• Most wakes last up to nine days, equal to the number of novena days. They may last longer or briefer depending on the family's wishes or reasons.