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# champion

«champion» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person or team that has won a competition, especially…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a champion, champions); verb (champion, champions, championed, championing); adjective (champion, UK informal); noun: championship

### meaning for a pupil

1) A champion is a person or team that has won a competition, especially the most important one: «the world champion». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/champion/#m1)

2) A champion of something is a person who fights for it or speaks up for it: «a champion of children's rights». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/champion/#m2)

3) To champion something means to support it and argue for it strongly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/champion/#m3)

4) (UK, informal, old-fashioned) «Champion!» means excellent, great. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/champion/#m4)

5) In old tales, a champion is a brave fighter chosen to fight for a king or another person. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/champion/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In sport and PE, «champions» win leagues, cups and sports days; a «championship» is a competition for the title. In history and stories, a champion was a knight who fought on behalf of someone else. In PSHE and the news, people champion causes like recycling or kindness. Phrases: «world champion», «reigning champion», «defending champion», «Olympic champion», «a champion of…».

### examples

- Our class were the sports day champions! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/champion/#x1)
- She is the world champion at chess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/champion/#x2)
- The defending champions lost in the first round. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/champion/#x3)
- Martin Luther King was a champion of equal rights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/champion/#x4)
- Our head teacher champions reading for pleasure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/champion/#x5)
- The knight fought as the queen's champion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/champion/#x6)
- «How was the match?» «Champion!» (UK, informal, Northern) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/champion/#x7)
- Liverpool became champions of the league. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/champion/#x8)

### note

Plural «champions». Short informal form: «champ». «Championship» is the competition; «champion» is the winner. Trap: «the reigning champion» is the current one; «a former champion» won before.

### In the corpora

- [It was reported that an AI beat a world champion at the board game Go, after learning by playing enormous numbers of games.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/6/)
- [Then he imagined playing football against the Reception class, scoring forty goals, and walking off feeling like a champion.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/8/)
- [Theo's mum has been the family champion at a board game for six years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/5/)
- [«Champion, son» (in the North of England «champion» means excellent).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/451-the-check-that-settles-it/22/)
- [Check facts before using them: Messi has scored headers, including one in the 2009 Champions League final.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «champion» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/champion/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.