champion – English noun declension

English noun forms of champion

Noun: champion
Singularchampion
Pluralchampions

Sample Sentences

  • The defending champion is expected to defeat his challenger.
  • Curry, a four-time NBA champion with the Warriors, played for the Wildcats for three seasons between 2006 and 2009, where he was twice named conference player of the year. [2025 March 11, Matias Grez, “Steph Curry accepts assistant general manager role at alma mater Davidson College”, in CNN:]
  • Barcelona is eligible to play in FIFA Club World Cup as the champion of Europe.
  • Emmeline Pankhurst was a champion of women's suffrage.
  • Specific outcomes from this policy included the appointment of a Digital Champion to drive forward the efforts to get more of the excluded to be included. [2012, Sue Watling, Jim Rogers, Social Work in a Digital Society, page 34:]
  • champion of the poor
  • Pictured above is an actual photograph of a Regal Lily that famed all over the world. It's a champion plant—because in one season it produced a total of 89 blooms from one bulb, an amazing record among lilies. [1938 November 5, Puritan Cordage Mills, “Take a Lesson from a Lily”, in Elmer C. Hole, editor, American Lumberman, volume 65, number 3138, Chicago, page 55:]
  • There was a news clipping there with a photo of a magnificent American elm, which had just been named the champion for its species, the largest of its kind. [2013, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1st edition, Milkweed Editions, →ISBN, →LCCN, pages 43–44:]
  • He [Matthew Olson] was searching for red maple trees to be tapped for syrup as part of the Stockton Maple Project when he came across the new champion tree. [2022 February 10, Christopher Doyle, “Stockton professor, students discover largest 'champion tree' in New Jersey”, in The Press of Alantic City, archived from the original on 10 Feb 2022:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em-der.
3. Proto-Indo-European *kh₂ém-po-s
4. Proto-Italic *kampos
5. Latin campusbor.
6. Proto-West Germanic *kamp
7. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
8. Proto-Germanic *-janą
9. Proto-West Germanic *-jan
10. Proto-West Germanic *kampijan
11. Proto-Germanic *-jô
12. Proto-West Germanic *-jō
13. Frankish *kampijōbor.
14. Medieval Latin campiō
15. Old French champiunbor.
16. Middle English champioun
17. English champion
18. 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 *kampijan (“to battle, to campaign”), itself a derivative of *kamp (“battlefield, battle”), ultimately a borrowing in West-Germanic from Latin campus (“a field, a plain, a place of action”).
19. Cognate with Old English cæmpa, cempa (“soldier, warrior, champion”), Old High German kempfeo, kempfo (“fighter, warrior, champion”), whence archaic German Kempfe (“fighter”). See: Middle English Nouns 'champioun', Latin Nouns 'campus', Old English Nouns 'cempa'.

Verbs referencing "champion"

Russian Nouns чемпион, German Nouns Champion, Irish Nouns seaimpín, Spanish Nouns champión, Latvian Nouns čempions, Swedish Nouns kämpe.