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badminton

noun
🔊/ˈbædmɪntən/
🔊/ˈbædmɪntən/
 [uncountable]
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  1. a game like tennis played by two or four people, usually indoors. Players hit a small light kind of ball, originally with feathers around it (= a shuttlecock) across a high net using a racket.羽毛球运动
    Topics Sports: ball and racket sportsc1
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryBadminton is used before these nouns:
    • club
    • racket
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    Word Originnamed after Badminton in SW England, country seat of the Duke of Beaufort.

Badminton

🔊/ˈbædmɪntən/
🔊/ˈbædmɪntən/
(also formal the Badminton Horse Trials
🔊/ðə ˌbædmɪntən ˈhɔːs traɪəlz/
🔊/ðə ˌbædmɪntən ˈhɔːrs traɪəlz/
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  1. a three-day eventing competition (= type of horse riding competition) held every year on land around Badminton House, a large house near Bath, England.