Noun: volleyball
| Singular | volleyball |
| Plural | volleyballs |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like volleyball
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English volley
3. Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.
4. Proto-Germanic *balluz
5. Old English *beall
6. Middle English bal
7. English ball
8. English volleyball
9. From volley + ball.
10. In 1895, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, William G. Morgan created a new game called Mintonette, a name derived from the game of badminton. After an observer, Alfred Halstead, noticed the volleying nature of the game at its first exhibition match in 1896, played at the International YMCA Training School (now called Springfield College), the game quickly became known as volleyball (it was originally spelled as two words: "volley ball")
Verbs referencing "volleyball"
Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
volleyball, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
volleyball, German Nouns
Volleyball, Catalan Nouns
voleibol, Russian Nouns
волейбол, Ukrainian Nouns
волейбол, French Nouns
volley-ball, Dutch Nouns
volleybal.