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soft tennis en · NOUN

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of Japanese ソフトテニス (sofuto tenisu), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from soft + tenis.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) A variant of tennis, developed in Japan, differing in the tennis ball used, from regular tennis (lawn tennis), having a softer rubber ball.

Relateds

royal tennis · lawn tennis · tennis ball · tennis

Translations (7)

ko 소프트 테니스 (variant of tennis) · ja ソフトテニス (variant of tennis) · ko 연식정구 (variant of tennis) · it soft tennis (variant of tennis) · ja 軟式テニス (variant of tennis) · ja 軟式庭球 (variant of tennis) · ja ソフテニ (variant of tennis)