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Definition of badminton noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

badminton

noun
 
/ˈbædmɪntən/
 
/ˈbædmɪntən/
 [uncountable]
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  1. a game like tennis played by two or four people, usually indoors. Players hit a small light kind of ball, originally with feathers around it (= a shuttlecock) across a high net using a racket.Topics Sports: ball and racket sportsc1
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryBadminton is used before these nouns:
    • club
    • racket
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    Word Originnamed after Badminton in SW England, country seat of the Duke of Beaufort.
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