badminton
pronunciation
How to pronounce badminton in British English:
UK [ˈbædmɪntən]
How to pronounce badminton in American English:
US [ˈbædmɪntən]
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- Noun:
- a game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net
Word Origin
- badminton
- badminton: [19] The game of ‘battledore and shuttlecock’ has been around for some time (it appears to go back to the 16th century; the word battledore, which may come ultimately from Portuguese batedor ‘beater’, first turns up in the 15th century, meaning ‘implement for beating clothes when washing them’, but by the 16th century is being used for a ‘small racket’; while shuttlecock, so named because it is hit back and forth, first appears in the early 16th century, in a poem of John Skelton’s).This was usually a fairly informal, improvised affair, however, and latterly played mainly by children; the modern, codified game of badminton did not begin until the 1860s or 1870s, and takes its name from the place where it was apparently first played, Badminton House, Avon, country seat of the dukes of Beaufort. (A slightly earlier application of the word badminton had been to a cooling summer drink, a species of claret cup.)
- badminton (n.)
- 1874, from Badminton House, name of Gloucestershire estate of the Duke of Beaufort, where the game first was played in England, mid-19c., having been picked up by British officers from Indian poona. The place name is Old English Badimyncgtun (972), "estate of (a man called) Baduhelm."
Example
- 1. Or consider the discussion about the eastern badminton cheats .
- 2. That 's the pace of olympic badminton .
- 3. Is badminton also very popular ?
- 4. And I will play ping-pong and badminton with my friends .
- 5. The report instead cited jogging , swimming and badminton as the most commonly practiced physical activities .