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# championship

«championship» in Mova's school dictionary: **A competition to find the best player or team in a sport…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a championship, championships)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A competition to find the best player or team in a sport or game: «the world championship». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/championship/#m1)

2) The title or position of being the champion: «She won the championship.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/championship/#m2)

3) (formal) Strong support for a cause: «his championship of animal rights». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/championship/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In PE and sports news, championships are big tournaments: the World Championships, the Six Nations championship (rugby), the Championship (the second English football league). In everyday life there are school chess or spelling championships. Phrases: «win the championship», «championship title».

### examples

- Our team won the county championship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/championship/#x1)
- The swimming championship lasts three days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/championship/#x2)
- She is training for the world championship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/championship/#x3)
- The school chess championship is on Friday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/championship/#x4)
- They lost in the final of the championship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/championship/#x5)
- Leeds played in the Championship last season. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/championship/#x6)

### note

champion + -ship. Countable. «The Championship» with a capital C is the name of an English football league. Related: champion (the winner), champ (informal).

### In the corpora

- [The game of conkers has a world championship held every year in England.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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