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tennis ball en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English teneys-ball (attested in the plural teneys-ballis), equivalent to tennis + ball.

Meanings

  1. A hollow, bouncy rubber ball, pressurized and covered with usually yellow felt, used in the game of tennis.
    • King. What Treaſure Vncle? / Exe. Tennis balles, my Liege. 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 72:

Forms

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tennis balls Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

tennis · tennis racquet · ball

Translations (17)

cmn 網球 /网球 (ball for tennis) · ar كرة التنس (ball for tennis) · ur ٹینس بال (ball for tennis) · fi tennispallo (ball for tennis) · nl tennisbal (ball for tennis) · yue 網球 /网球 (ball for tennis) · es bola de tenis (ball for tennis) · ro minge de tenis (ball for tennis) · ko 테니스공 (ball for tennis) · de Tennisball (ball for tennis) · he כדור טניס (ball for tennis) · ru те́ннисный мяч (ball for tennis) · fr balle de tennis (ball for tennis) · ja テニスボール (ball for tennis) · cs tenisák (ball for tennis) · da tennisbold (ball for tennis) · sv tennisboll (ball for tennis)