Noun: badminton
| Singular | badminton |
| Plural | badmintons |
Sample Sentences
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Four pairs of women's doubles badminton players, including the Chinese top seeds, have been ejected from the Olympic tournament for trying to throw matches in an effort to secure a more favourable quarter-final draw. [2012 August 1, Peter Walker, Haroon Siddique, “Eight Olympic badminton players disqualified for 'throwing games'”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2024:]
Nouns inflected like badminton
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
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photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Named after Badminton House, an estate in Gloucestershire owned by the Duke of Beaufort, where the game was first played in England. For the house name, see Badminton.
Verbs referencing "badminton"
Danish Nouns
badminton, Dutch Nouns
badminton, Faroese Nouns
badminton, French Nouns
badminton, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
badminton, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
badminton, German Nouns
Badminton, Irish Nouns
badmantan, Catalan Nouns
bàdminton.