badminton

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbæd.mɪn.tən/

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• IPA^(key): /ˈbæd.mɪtn̩/ (the most common US pronunciation according to Merriam-Webster)

badminton (countable and uncountable, plural badmintons)

1. (uncountable) 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.
2. (countable) A cooling summer drink made with claret, sugar, and soda water.

• (sport): badders (UK, informal)

• badminton on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• badminton on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Mills, A.D., A Dictionary of English Place Names, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998

From English badminton.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛdmɪnton]

badminton m

1. badminton

• badminton in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• badminton in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

From English badminton.

• IPA^(key): /badməntɔn/, [ˈb̥ad̥məntˢʌn]

badminton c

1. badminton

• “badminton” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from English badminton.

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛt.mɪnˌtɔn/, /ˈbɛt.mɪnˌtən/

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• Hyphenation: bad‧min‧ton

badminton n (uncountable)

1. badminton

• badmintonnen

From English badminton.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpat.mɪn.tʰɔn]

badminton n (genitive singular badmintons, uncountable)

1. badminton

From English badminton.

• IPA^(key): /bad.min.tɔn/

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badminton m (uncountable)

1. badminton

• “badminton”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from English badminton.

badminton m (invariable)

1. badminton

From English badminton.

badminton m (definite singular badmintonen, uncountable)

1. (sports) badminton

• badmintonbane
• badmintonspiller

• “badminton” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From English badminton.

badminton m (definite singular badmintonen, uncountable)

1. (sports) badminton

• badmintonbane

• “badminton” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from English badminton.

• IPA^(key): /badˈmin.tɔn/

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• Rhymes: -intɔn
• Syllabification: bad‧min‧ton

badminton m anim

1. badminton

• badminton in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• badminton in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• badmínton

Unadapted borrowing from English badminton.

badminton m (uncountable)

1. badminton

• “badminton” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Unadapted borrowing from English badminton or French badminton.

badminton n (uncountable)

1. badminton

Borrowed from English badminton.

• Hyphenation: bad‧min‧ton
• IPA^(key): /ˌbadminˈton/, [ˌbad.mɪnˈton]
• IPA^(key): /badminˈton/, [bɐd.mɪnˈton]

bádmintón or badmintón

1. badminton

• magbadminton

Unadapted borrowing from English badminton.

• IPA^(key): /bɛd.min.t(ɯ)n/

badminton (definite accusative badmintonı, uncountable)

1. badminton