different between championship vs authority

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

• authourity, authoritie, autority, auctoritie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English auctorite, autorite (“authority, book or quotation that settles an argument”), from Old French auctorité, from Latin stem of auct?rit?s (“invention, advice, opinion, influence, command”), from auctor (“master, leader, author”). For the presence of the h, compare the etymology of author.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???????ti/, /???????ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??????ti/, /??????ti/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /???t???ti/
• Hyphenation: au?thor?i?ty
• Rhymes: -???ti

Noun

authority (countable and uncountable, plural authorities)

1. (uncountable) The power to enforce rules or give orders.
   • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V

     But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.

2. (used in singular or plural form) Persons in command; specifically, government.
3. (countable) A person accepted as a source of reliable information on a subject.
   • 1930 September 18, Albert Einstein, as quoted in Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (1988) by Banesh Hoffman

     To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.

4. Government-owned agency which runs a revenue-generating activity.

   New York Port Authority

Derived terms

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Translations

See also

• have something on good authority

References

• authority at OneLook Dictionary Search
• authority in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• authority in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.