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Definition of Lawn tennis
1. Noun. A game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court.
Examples of category: Double Fault, Break, Break Of Serve, Cut, Undercut, Drive, Forehand, Forehand Shot, Forehand Stroke, Forehand Drive, Serve, Service, Fault, Exchange, Rally, Match Point, Game, Ace, Drop One's Serve
Terms within: Footfault, Return, Service Break, Advantage, Set Point
Generic synonyms: Court Game
Specialized synonyms: Professional Tennis, Singles, Doubles, Court Tennis, Real Tennis, Royal Tennis
Definition of Lawn tennis
1. Noun. tennis played on a grass court ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lawn Tennis
Literary usage of Lawn tennis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sportby C. M. van Stockum by C. M. van Stockum (1914)
"Annual authorised and approved by the Council of Lawn-Tennis Association. lî°.
... 1455 Laws of Lawn-Tennis, with the rules or the Lawn-Tennis Association, ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The game of lawn-tennis as now known was introduced about 1875. Bibliography.—
Dewhurst, EB, 'Science of lawn tennis' (Philadelphia 1910); Do- herty, ..."
3. Who's who in America by John William Leonard, Albert Nelson Marquis (1906)
"Made reputation as expert amateur player of lawn tennis having held many
championships In US and abroad. Specialized in writing on amateur sports, ..."
4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"What pleasure can equal, what exercise vies With winter Lawn-Tennis, ... In autumn,
as well as in summer or spring, In praise or Lawn-Tennis I heartily sing ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"lawn tennis—Although acknowledged to be the most modern of our national pastimes,
lawn tennis in all probability had its origin in the ball games which were ..."
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