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/

• Audio (US):

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

 

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

badminton

Wikipedia ^cs

Borrowed from English badminton.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛdmɪnton]

badminton m inan

1. badminton

• “badminton”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “badminton”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

 

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

badminton

Wikipedia ^da

From English badminton.

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

badminton c

1. badminton

• “badminton” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from English badminton.

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

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: bad‧min‧ton

badminton n (uncountable)

1. badminton

• badmintonnen

 

Faroese Wikipedia has an article on:

badminton

Wikipedia ^fo

From English badminton.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpat.mɪn.tʰɔn]

badminton n (genitive singular badmintons, uncountable)

1. badminton

 

French Wikipedia has an article on:

badminton

Wikipedia ^fr

Borrowed from English badminton.

• IPA^(key): /bad.min.tɔn/

• Audio (Paris):

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badminton m (uncountable)

1. badminton

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

 

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

badminton

Wikipedia ^it

Unadapted borrowing from English badminton.

badminton m (invariable)

1. badminton

 

Malay Wikipedia has an article on:

badminton

Wikipedia ^ms

Borrowed from English badminton.

• IPA^(key): /bɛtmintən/, [bɛt̚mintən]
  • (Baku) IPA^(key): [badminton]
• Rhymes: -tən, -ən

badminton (Jawi spelling بدمينتون)

1. The sport of badminton.

   Synonyms: bulu tangkis (rare), bola tangkis (rare)

• “badminton” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

 

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

badminton

Wikipedia ^no

From English badminton.

badminton m (definite singular badmintonen, uncountable)

1. (sports) badminton

• badmintonbane
• badmintonspiller

• “badminton” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

 

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

badminton

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

From English badminton.

badminton m (definite singular badmintonen, uncountable)

1. (sports) badminton

• badmintonbane

• “badminton” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

 

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

badminton

Wikipedia ^pl

• (proscribed) babington, (proscribed) badmington

Borrowed from English badminton.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbad.min.tɔn/, /badˈmin.tɔn/

• Audio:

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

badminton m animal (related adjective badmintonowy)

1. (uncountable) badminton (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)

   Synonym: kometka

2. (countable) badminton equipment

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

Unadapted borrowing from English badminton.

• Hyphenation: bad‧min‧ton

badminton m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of badmínton

• “badminton”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Unadapted borrowing from English badminton or French badminton.

badminton n (uncountable)

1. badminton

 

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

badminton

Wikipedia ^sv

badminton c

1. badminton (sport)

• badmintonbana
• badmintonboll
• badmintonnät
• badmintonracket

• fjäderboll

• badminton in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• badminton in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Borrowed from English badminton.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbadminton/ [ˌbad̪.mɪn̪ˈt̪on̪], /badminˈton/ [bɐd̪.mɪn̪ˈt̪on̪]
• Rhymes: -adminton, -on
• Syllabification: bad‧min‧ton

bádmintón or badmintón (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜇ᜔ᜋᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜓᜈ᜔)

1. badminton

• magbadminton

Unadapted borrowing from English badminton.

• IPA^(key): /bɛd.min.t(ɯ)n/

badminton (definite accusative badmintonı, uncountable)

1. badminton