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say it: CHAM-pee-uhn
champion is a noun, verb and adjective meaning "someone who has won first place in a competition". It carries 6 recorded senses.
someone who has won first place in a competition
a person who backs a politician or a team etc.
“all their supporters came out for the game”
“they are friends of the library”
holding first place in a contest
“a champion show dog”
“a prizewinning wine”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for champion come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.