"tennis ball" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: tennis balls [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English teneys-ball (attested in the plural teneys-ballis), equivalent to tennis + ball. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|teneys-ball}} Middle English teneys-ball, {{com|en|tennis|ball}} tennis + ball Head templates: {{en-noun}} tennis ball (plural tennis balls)
  1. A hollow, bouncy rubber ball, pressurized and covered with usually yellow felt, used in the game of tennis. Wikipedia link: tennis ball Categories (topical): Tennis Related terms: ball, tennis, tennis racquet Translations (ball for tennis): 網球 (Chinese Mandarin), 网球 (wǎngqiú) (Chinese Mandarin), tennisbold [common-gender] (Danish), tennisbal [masculine] (Dutch), tennispallo (Finnish), Tennisball [masculine] (German), כדור טניס (kador tenis) (Hebrew), 테니스공 (teniseugong) (Korean), minge de tenis (Romanian), те́ннисный мяч (tɛ́nnisnyj mjač) [masculine] (Russian), bola de tenis (Spanish), tennisboll [common-gender] (Swedish)

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