different between championship vs preservation

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

Etymology

From Old French preservacion, from Medieval Latin preservatio.Morphologically preserve +? -ation

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /p??.z??ve?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

preservation (countable and uncountable, plural preservations)

1. The act of preserving; care to preserve; act of keeping from destruction, decay or any ill.

   • Nature does not require
     Her times of preservation, which, perforce
     I give my tendence to

   • The eyes of the Lord are upon them that love him, his is ther mighty protection, a preservation from stumbling, and a help from falling.

   • c. 1600, Sir John Davies, The Original, Nature, and Immortality of the Soul

     Every seneseless thing by nature's light
     Doth preservation seek, destruction shun

   • , Book II, Chapter XXI

     our all-wise Maker, suitably to our constitution and frame, and knowing what it is that determines the will, has put into man the uneasiness of hunger and thirst, and other natural desires, that return at their seasons, to move and determine their wills, for the preservation of themselves, and the continuation of their species

Translations

Anagrams

• varentropies