different between championship vs assistance

English

Etymology

From champion +? -ship.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?æmpi.?n??p/

Noun

championship (countable and uncountable, plural championships)

1. (sports) A competition to determine a champion, especially the final of a series of competitions.
2. The position of champion, or winner.
3. Defense or support of some cause.

   His championship of civil rights eventually bore fruit.

   • They had also dropped their championship of Jones, who had given up hope of getting his farm back and gone to live in another part of the county.

Translations

Cebuano

Etymology

Compared to the preceding days, being the night before the burial, the night where most people show up in a wake.

Noun

championship

1. (chiefly Cebu, slang, humorous) the night before the day of the burial (see usage notes)

Usage notes

• Most wake last up to nine days, equal to the number of novena days. May be longer or briefer depending on the family's wishes or reasons.

English

Alternative forms

• assistaunce

Etymology

From Middle English assistance, from Middle French assistance, from Medieval Latin assistentia, from Latin assist? (“I stand at”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??s?s.t?ns/

Noun

assistance (usually uncountable, plural assistances)

1. Aid; help; the act or result of assisting.

Derived terms

• public assistance

Translations

French

Etymology

From Late Latin assistentia.

Noun

assistance f (plural assistances)

1. assistance
2. audience

Derived terms

• assistance publique

Related terms

• assistant

Further reading

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