"soft tennis" meaning in English

See soft tennis in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: Calque of Japanese ソフトテニス (sofuto tenisu), from English soft + tennis. Etymology templates: {{cal|en|ja|ソフトテニス|tr=sofuto tenisu}} Calque of Japanese ソフトテニス (sofuto tenisu), {{der|en|en|-}} English, {{com|en|soft|tennis}} soft + tennis Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} soft tennis (uncountable)
  1. (sports) A variant of tennis, developed in Japan, differing in the tennis ball used, from regular tennis (lawn tennis), having a softer rubber ball. Wikipedia link: soft tennis Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Sports Related terms: tennis, royal tennis, lawn tennis, tennis ball Translations (variant of tennis): soft tennis [masculine] (Italian), ソフトテニス (sofutotenisu) (Japanese), ソフテニ (sofuteni) (Japanese)
    Sense id: en-soft_tennis-en-noun-eAfcxrM0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms borrowed back into English Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports

Download JSON data for soft tennis meaning in English (2.2kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ja",
        "3": "ソフトテニス",
        "tr": "sofuto tenisu"
      },
      "expansion": "Calque of Japanese ソフトテニス (sofuto tenisu)",
      "name": "cal"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "en",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "English",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "soft",
        "3": "tennis"
      },
      "expansion": "soft + tennis",
      "name": "com"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Calque of Japanese ソフトテニス (sofuto tenisu), from English soft + tennis.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "soft tennis (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms borrowed back into English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sports",
          "orig": "en:Sports",
          "parents": [
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A variant of tennis, developed in Japan, differing in the tennis ball used, from regular tennis (lawn tennis), having a softer rubber ball."
      ],
      "id": "en-soft_tennis-en-noun-eAfcxrM0",
      "links": [
        [
          "sports",
          "sports"
        ],
        [
          "tennis",
          "tennis"
        ],
        [
          "tennis ball",
          "tennis ball"
        ],
        [
          "regular tennis",
          "regular tennis"
        ],
        [
          "lawn tennis",
          "lawn tennis"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sports) A variant of tennis, developed in Japan, differing in the tennis ball used, from regular tennis (lawn tennis), having a softer rubber ball."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "tennis"
        },
        {
          "word": "royal tennis"
        },
        {
          "word": "lawn tennis"
        },
        {
          "word": "tennis ball"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "variant of tennis",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "soft tennis"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "sofutotenisu",
          "sense": "variant of tennis",
          "word": "ソフトテニス"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "sofuteni",
          "sense": "variant of tennis",
          "word": "ソフテニ"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "soft tennis"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "soft tennis"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ja",
        "3": "ソフトテニス",
        "tr": "sofuto tenisu"
      },
      "expansion": "Calque of Japanese ソフトテニス (sofuto tenisu)",
      "name": "cal"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "en",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "English",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "soft",
        "3": "tennis"
      },
      "expansion": "soft + tennis",
      "name": "com"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Calque of Japanese ソフトテニス (sofuto tenisu), from English soft + tennis.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "soft tennis (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "tennis"
    },
    {
      "word": "royal tennis"
    },
    {
      "word": "lawn tennis"
    },
    {
      "word": "tennis ball"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms borrowed back into English",
        "English terms calqued from Japanese",
        "English terms derived from Japanese",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "en:Sports"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A variant of tennis, developed in Japan, differing in the tennis ball used, from regular tennis (lawn tennis), having a softer rubber ball."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sports",
          "sports"
        ],
        [
          "tennis",
          "tennis"
        ],
        [
          "tennis ball",
          "tennis ball"
        ],
        [
          "regular tennis",
          "regular tennis"
        ],
        [
          "lawn tennis",
          "lawn tennis"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sports) A variant of tennis, developed in Japan, differing in the tennis ball used, from regular tennis (lawn tennis), having a softer rubber ball."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "soft tennis"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "variant of tennis",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "soft tennis"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "sofutotenisu",
      "sense": "variant of tennis",
      "word": "ソフトテニス"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "sofuteni",
      "sense": "variant of tennis",
      "word": "ソフテニ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "soft tennis"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.