different between safeguard vs championship

English

Etymology

From Middle English savegard, from Middle French sauvegarde, from Old French salve garde, sauve garde, reconstructed as safe +? guard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se?f???(?)d/

Noun

safeguard (plural safeguards)

1. Something that serves as a guard or protection; a defense.

2. One who, or that which, defends or protects; defence; protection.
   • 1726, George Granville, To the King, in the First Year of His Majesty’s Reign

     Thy sword, the safeguard of thy brother's throne.

3. A safe-conduct or passport, especially in time of war.
4. (obsolete) The monitor lizard.
   • 1844, The Animal Kingdom

     The same idea is entertained of the Safeguard in America, as of the Monitor in Africa, and other parts of the Old World, […]

Translations

Verb

safeguard (third-person singular simple present safeguards, present participle safeguarding, simple past and past participle safeguarded)

1. To protect, to keep safe.
2. To escort safely.

Translations

Anagrams

• saufgarde

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.