Definition of CHAMPION

champion

Plural: champions

Noun

  • someone who has won first place in a competition
  • someone who fights for a cause
  • a person who backs a politician or a team etc.
  • someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
  • An ongoing winner in a game or contest.
  • Someone who is chosen to represent a group of people in a contest.
  • Someone who fights for a cause or status.
  • Someone who fights on another's behalf.
  • A particularly notable member of a plant species, such as one of great size.

Verb

Verb Forms: championed, championing, champions

  • To defend, support, or advocate for a cause or person.
  • protect or fight for as a champion
  • To promote, advocate, or act as a champion for (a cause, etc.).
  • To challenge.

Adjective Satellite

  • holding first place in a contest
    • "a champion show dog"

Adj

  • Acting as a champion; having defeated all one's competitors.
  • Excellent; beyond compare.
  • Excellent; brilliant; superb; deserving of high praise.

Examples

  • "That rollercoaster was champion," laughed Vinny.
  • a champion bodybuilder
  • Barcelona is eligible to play in FIFA Club World Cup as the champion of Europe.
  • champion of the poor
  • Emmeline Pankhurst was a champion of women's suffrage.
  • She would CHAMPION her high-scoring plays, confident in their validity.
  • The defending champion is expected to defeat his challenger.

Origin / Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *kampos
Latin campusbor.
Proto-West Germanic *kamp
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Germanic *-janą
Proto-West Germanic *-jan
Proto-West Germanic *kampijan
Proto-Germanic *-jô
Proto-West Germanic *-jō
Frankish *kampijōbor.
Medieval Latin campiō
Old French champiunbor.
Middle English champioun
English champion
From Middle English champioun, from Old French champion, from Medieval Latin campio (“combatant in a duel, champion”), from Frankish *kampijō (“fighter”), from Proto-West Germanic *kampijō (“combat soldier”), a derivative of Proto-West Germanic *kampijan (“to battle, to campaign”), itself a derivative of Proto-West Germanic *kamp (“battlefield, battle”), ultimately a borrowing in West-Germanic from Latin campus (“a field, a plain, a place of action”). By surface analysis champ + -ion.

Scrabble Score: 17

champion: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
champion: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
champion: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 20

champion: valid Words With Friends Word