different between badminton vs soccer

English

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bæd.m?n.t?n/
• (nonstandard) IPA^(key): /?bæd.m?tn?/

Noun

badminton (countable and uncountable, plural badmintons)

1. (uncountable) A racquet sport played indoors on a court by two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs of players (doubles), in which a shuttlecock is volleyed over a net and the competitions are presided by an umpire in British English and a referee in American English.
2. (countable) A cooling summer drink made with claret, sugar, and soda water.

Synonyms

• (sport): badders (UK, informal)

Derived terms

• badminton court
• badminton player

Translations

Further reading

• badminton on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• badminton on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Mills, A.D., A Dictionary of English Place Names, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998

Czech

Etymology

From English badminton.

Noun

badminton m

1. badminton

Danish

Etymology

From English badminton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /badm?nt?n/, [?b?ad?m?nt??n]

Noun

badminton c

1. badminton

Declension

References

• “badminton” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English badminton.

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /?b?t.m?n?t?n/, /?b?t.m?n?t?n/
• Hyphenation: bad?min?ton

Noun

badminton n (uncountable)

1. badminton

Derived terms

• badmintonnen

Faroese

Etymology

From English badminton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pat.m?n.t??n]

Noun

badminton n (genitive singular badmintons, uncountable)

1. badminton

Declension

French

Etymology

From English badminton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bad.min.t?n/

Noun

badminton m (uncountable)

1. badminton

Further reading

• “badminton” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From English badminton.

Noun

badminton m (invariable)

1. badminton

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English badminton.

Noun

badminton m (definite singular badmintonen, uncountable)

1. (sports) badminton

Derived terms

• badmintonbane
• badmintonspiller

References

• “badminton” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English badminton.

Noun

badminton m (definite singular badmintonen, uncountable)

1. (sports) badminton

Derived terms

• badmintonbane

References

• “badminton” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English badminton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bad?m?in.t?n/

Noun

badminton m anim

1. badminton

Declension

Derived terms

• (nouns) badmintonista, badmintonistka
• (adjective) badmintonowy

Further reading

• badminton in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• badmínton

Etymology

From English badminton.

Noun

badminton m (uncountable)

1. badminton

Further reading

• “badminton” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English badminton.

Noun

bádmintón, badmintón

1. badminton

English

Alternative forms

• socker, socca

Etymology

British English; Colloquial abbreviation for association football, via abbreviation assoc. +? -er (slang suffix); earlier socker (1885), also socca (1889), with soccer attested 1888.

Compare contemporary rugger, from Rugby, and note vulgar connotations of analogous *asser if abbreviating on first syllable. Similarly constructed coinages from the same period include: brekker (“breakfast”), fresher (“freshman”) and footer (“football”). See Oxford -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?k.?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?k.?/
• Rhymes: -?k?(?)

Noun

soccer (uncountable)

1. association football

   Synonyms: (UK, formal, rarely used) association football, soccer football, (ambiguous) football; see also Thesaurus:football

Usage notes

• football (“soccer”) is more commonly used in the UK, Ireland, and many other places in the world, with the exception of the US, Canada, Australia, and South Africa.

Derived terms

• soccer mom

Related terms

• rugger

Descendants

Translations

Verb

soccer (third-person singular simple present soccers, present participle soccering, simple past and past participle soccered)

1. (Australian rules football) To kick the football directly off the ground, without using one's hands.
   • 1990 Geoffrey Blainey, A Game of Our Own: The Origins of Australian Football, 2003, Black Inc. Publishing, p73.

     The rule seems to have encouraged players to soccer the ball along the ground.

   • 2008, John Devaney, Full Points Footy?s WA Football Companion, page 334,

     […] West Perth seemed on the verge of victory, only to succumb by 4 points after a soccered goal from Old Easts with less than half a minute remaining.

   • 2010 March 27, Michael Whiting, “Lions give Fev debut to remember”, AFL - The official site of the Australian Football League.

     Fevola showed the best and worst of his play after dropping a simple chest mark, only to regather seconds later and soccer the ball through from the most acute of angles.

References

Further reading

• soccer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Association football on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Croces, escroc, scorce

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?.kœ?/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): [s?.k?], [s?.kaœ??]

Noun

soccer m (uncountable)

1. (Canada, Quebec, Louisiana) soccer (association football)

Synonyms

• football m

See also

• football américain
• football canadien

Anagrams

• escroc