different between badminton vs battledore

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bæd.m?n.t?n/
• (nonstandard) IPA^(key): /?bæd.m?tn?/

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• (sport): badders (UK, informal)

Derived terms

• badminton court
• badminton player

Translations

Further reading

• 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

Czech

Etymology

From English badminton.

Noun

badminton m

1. badminton

Danish

Etymology

From English badminton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /badm?nt?n/, [?b?ad?m?nt??n]

Noun

badminton c

1. badminton

Declension

References

• “badminton” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English badminton.

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /?b?t.m?n?t?n/, /?b?t.m?n?t?n/
• Hyphenation: bad?min?ton

Noun

badminton n (uncountable)

1. badminton

Derived terms

• badmintonnen

Faroese

Etymology

From English badminton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pat.m?n.t??n]

Noun

badminton n (genitive singular badmintons, uncountable)

1. badminton

Declension

French

Etymology

From English badminton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bad.min.t?n/

Noun

badminton m (uncountable)

1. badminton

Further reading

• “badminton” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From English badminton.

Noun

badminton m (invariable)

1. badminton

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English badminton.

Noun

badminton m (definite singular badmintonen, uncountable)

1. (sports) badminton

Derived terms

• badmintonbane
• badmintonspiller

References

• “badminton” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English badminton.

Noun

badminton m (definite singular badmintonen, uncountable)

1. (sports) badminton

Derived terms

• badmintonbane

References

• “badminton” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English badminton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bad?m?in.t?n/

Noun

badminton m anim

1. badminton

Declension

Derived terms

• (nouns) badmintonista, badmintonistka
• (adjective) badmintonowy

Further reading

• badminton in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• badmínton

Etymology

From English badminton.

Noun

badminton m (uncountable)

1. badminton

Further reading

• “badminton” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English badminton.

Noun

bádmintón, badmintón

1. badminton

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Alternative forms

• battledoor

Noun

battledore (plural battledores)

1. A game played with a shuttlecock and rackets (properly battledore and shuttlecock); a forerunner of badminton.
2. The racket used in this game.
3. (obsolete) A child's hornbook for learning the alphabet.
   • 1802, William Hutton, The History of the Roman Wall, preface

     You will also pardon the errors of the Work, for you know I was not bred to letters; but, that the battledore, at an age not exceeding six, was the last book I used at school.

4. (historical) A bat or beetle used in washing clothes.
   • 1563, John Foxe, The Book of Martyrs, ch. 21

     There is a large basin near the fountain, where numbers of women may be seen every day, kneeling at the edge of the water, and beating the clothes with heavy pieces of wood in the shape of battledores.

Derived terms

• know B from a battledore, know a B from a battledore

Translations

Anagrams

• tetralobed