- 1a person, team, etc. that has won a competition, especially in a sport the world basketball champions a champion jockey/boxer/swimmer, etc. the reigning champion (= the person who is champion now)
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- 2champion (of something) a person who fights for, or speaks in support of, a group of people or a belief She was a champion of the poor all her life.
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