championship A2 Topic:Sports & Fitness US /ˈtʃæm.pi.ən.ʃɪp/ See IPA manual Freq #5641 Meanings 1 noun A competition held to decide the best player or team. She won the national tennis championship. 2 noun The position or title of being a champion. They lost the championship to their old rivals. Thesaurus Synonyms 2 noun · the position or title of... title Word family Forms championships Derived forms prechampionship Etymology AI details From champion + -ship. *kh₂em- Proto-Indo-European View etymology graph -> Topics Sports & Fitness External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # championship **Type:** Word **Level:** A2 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈtʃæm.pi.ən.ʃɪp/ **Frequency rank:** 5641 ## Meanings 1. A competition held to decide the best player or team. 2. The position or title of being a champion. ## Examples - She won the national tennis championship. - They lost the championship to their old rivals. ## Derived Forms - prechampionship ## Roots and Affixes - Root: *kh₂em- ## Etymology From champion + -ship. ## AI Etymology Championship is from champion plus -ship. The historical chain also includes Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em-. The formation is semantically transparent: the parts remain visible, while the compound or affix fixes the grammatical role and narrows the modern meaning. In use as a noun, championship denotes a competition held to decide the best player or team and the position or title of being a champion. The same word family continues in derived forms such as prechampionship. ## Topics - Sports & Fitness markdown