champion1 nounchampion2 verb
championcham‧pi‧on1 /ˈtʃæmpiən/ ●●● W3 noun [countable] 
WORD ORIGINchampion1
Origin:
1100-1200 Old French, Medieval Latin campioEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- As defending champion, he is expected to reach the final.
- Bjorn Borg was the reigning Wimbledon champion for five years.
- By 1978 Boitano was the national junior champion in ice skating.
- Mohammed Ali, the former world heavyweight boxing champion, will appear on the 'Tonight' show next week.
- And the fighter revealed he's shelling out £20,000 for sparring partners Mike Weaver and Tony Tubbs, both former world champions.
- But, whatever the result, he is backing United to be the first Premier League champions.
- It does so on two grounds: that Duran is no longer a champion and that he may not be fit.
- Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion, had his problems with the law.
- The defending World Cup champion was fastest in practice.
- Tracey Thompson agrees there aren't many schools, especially girls schools which can boast two national chess champions.
- Two men walk in there who walks out the champion?
- United responded like champions and laid seige to the Chelsea goal for the remainder of the game.
Longman Language Activatorto fight for something you think is right or against something you think is wrong
to try hard for a long time to stop something bad from happening or to improve a situation: · We are determined to fight drug abuse in schools.fight for: · Freedom of speech is something well worth fighting for.fight to do something: · Mandela fought to abolish white-only rule in South Africa.fight against: · Amnesty is an organization that fights against torture and injustice.
to work continuously and patiently to make changes that will improve society or the world: work for: · The group has become a small but significant force working for change.work to do something: · an organization that is working to preserve California's redwood treeswork tirelessly (=work very hard): · She will be remembered as someone who worked tirelessly for educational reform.
to work for a long time, for example making speeches, writing to newspapers and political representatives etc, in order to persuade people that something needs to be done: · After months of campaigning, local parents have persuaded the council to provide a school bus service.campaign for: · Women campaigned for equal pay and equal rights throughout the 1960s.campaign to do something: · He was one of the people who campaigned to change the law on homosexuality.
to publicly fight for and defend an aim or principle such as the rights of a group of people: · Martin Luther King championed the rights of all black Americans.· Throughout her political career she was a champion of prison reform.
to take action effectively in order to oppose something bad such as injustice, crime, or illness: · The police are looking for more effective ways to combat drugs gangs in the city.· Measures to combat pollution within the city have been introduced.· The government sees price controls as a way to combat inflation.
if a government or organization wages war on something such as an illness, bad conditions, or crime, they fight against it for a long time in a very determined way: · The World Health Organization is constantly waging war on malaria.· We need a comprehensive strategy to wage war on poverty in our inner cities.
the person or team that wins · The winner will receive a prize of $500.· The crowd roared as the winner crossed the finishing line.winner of · On Thursday the judges will be announcing the winner of this year's Booker Prize.
a person who has won a competition, especially in sport: · Mohammed Ali, the former world heavyweight boxing champion, will appear on the 'Tonight' show next week.defending champion (=the person who won last time and is trying to win again): · As defending champion, he is expected to reach the final.reigning champion (=the present champion who won the competition last time): · Bjorn Borg was the reigning Wimbledon champion for five years.
: winning team/player/horse etc (=the team, player etc that wins) · The winning team will go through to the grand final in London.· A group of reporters followed the winning jockey and horse into the winner's enclosure.
written the winner in a war, election, or important sporting event: · After the war, the victors returned in triumph.· The victors are waving to the crowd as they do their lap of honour.
having won an important fight, competition, election, etc: · He shook hands with his victorious opponent.· Three young men from the victorious team came forward to collect their trophy.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYADJECTIVES/NOUN + champion
the defending champion the ladies’ darts team the undisputed world heavyweight champion the reigning Formula One world championCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· She's a top international athlete and an Olympic champion.
· At 22, he was the youngest world champion in the history of the game.
(=the present one)· Cheah defeated the defending champion in the National Grand Prix.
· The former champion suffered a bad defeat.
· The cycling team includes British junior champion, Andrew Wright.
· At 16, Gallois is France's youngest national champion.
· The show will be opened by the former world boxing champion, Chris Eubank.
(=one in a particular class of boxers, organized according to their weight)· Graham's reign as middleweight champion ended last night.
(=one in a running race)· She's the world 3,000 metres champion.
verbs· Every sportsperson dreams of becoming a world champion.
(=become champion)· In 2007, the Springboks were crowned the rugby champions of the world.
champion + NOUN· Lester Piggott is a former champion jockey.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES (=publicly support an aim)· He has championed the cause of renewable energy since the 1980s.
the defending champion the ladies’ darts team the undisputed world heavyweight champion the reigning Formula One world champion· She's teamed up with Gill Clark and they're current national doubles champions.· Gianni Bugno, so powerful in the hills and the current world road champion, must be among the favourites.· The maillot arc-en-ciel is the rainbow jersey worn only by the current world champion.· But Limerick are the current league champions and Jim Nelson's men can't afford to take anything for granted.
· Netball Sefton, the defending champions, will have to work hard particularly against a Wirral side.· They defeated Essex 6-3, Herts., the defending champions, 7-2, and Dorset, 7-2.· Galway's All Ireland semi-final win is now history, and counts for little as they prepare to face defending champions Kilkenny.· Allan Wells, as defending champion, had already been selected.· Morrell went on for a comfortable victory over three seconds clear of the defending champion, Mark Kirk, of Ballymena.· Swansea's victory kept them top of the First Division and was another display worthy of any defending champions.
· Like all great champions he is single-minded and selfish.· Chavez is a great champion, of course.· Only the really great champions refuse to be sidetracked by any of these minor problems.· The place never saw a greater champion.· They were great champions and everyone who saw them on the ice thought they were lovers.· This was the last fight between the two great champions, as all the immortals knew.· The careers of many great champions have been blighted and eventually ruined by their putting.· Their great champion was far away.
· The most impressive winner of the afternoon was North-East junior champion Michael Threadgill.· He was also second in the Yorkshire Championships at Harrogate and is currently junior champion of Yorkshire.· Lisa Ashdown scored a useful win over the new junior boys' champion Paul Davison.
· She's teamed up with Gill Clark and they're current national doubles champions.· Whoever wins the title, rest assured of one thing: The national champion would lose the next day.· Women's National champion, Melissa Watson, who races with the Swindon team came a cropper.· This program is totally free to the kids who participate, and the eventual national champions win college scholarships.· And Booth did enough to suggest it will only be a matter of time before he is crowned national champion.· All year long, the Bruins were living with the fame and adulation of being defending national champions.· He has been national champion at under-10, 14, 16 and 19 level, and World Young Master.· She is the current two-time defending national rhythmic gymnastics champion.
· And how can traditional advocates of animal welfare prove that these new champions of the welfare of animals must be mistaken?· When the bee resumes Thursday, Ward will battle 102 other spellers until a new champion is crowned.· After all, the endurance in the pueblos counted more than the new government, the new champions, the new reforms.· However Microsoft or its new anti-Wabi champion, Insignia Solutions could still sue.
· Today we meet Olympic cycling champion Chris Boardman Keith.· Quincy Watts, the 1992 Olympic champion, faded to eighth and did not qualify for the Olympic team.· He was a top international athlete, an Olympic champion.· By the time the Olympic champion finished in eighth, her emotions were laid bare for the crowd.· Peters and Daley Thompson, the 1980 and 1984 Olympic decathlon champion, were there to cheer her on.· Though Jackson was the first to congratulate the Olympic champion, the disappointment was written all over his face.
· Bobby Rahal, the reigning champion in the current Indy Car series, has tried to develop a domestic car-building programme.· Four former World finalists, and the reigning World Under-21 champion, will be in action against the Bears.· A win against the reigning world champions is always good for morale, but on this occasion it would be especially welcome.· Cool Californian Wayne Rainey is the reigning champion.· The match of the day is between reigning champions Silksworth and hopefuls Houghton.· Fittipaldi's victory made the championship score 4- Points to the pretender and 27 to the reigning champion.· Sue Wright is Britain's reigning squash champion.· He was the reigning world champion and he'd won the first two races of the season.
· And now Faldo is primed to show the rest of the world's top golfers that he is the undisputed champion.· As a result he is no longer undisputed heavyweight champion of the world.· This is one art at which she's undisputed family champion.
NOUN· And who better to promote such knock-down prices than boxing champion, Chris Eubank.· But never before a heavy weight boxing champion of the world.
· But the heavyweight champions - as they always will - illuminated the image sent out to the public.· It was the heavyweight champion until the advent of Art Explosion, a production of Nova Development.· Still in their musical infancy, these guys are prospective heavyweight champions ... no sweat.· Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion, had his problems with the law.· He presented boxer Jack Johnson when he was heavyweight champion.
· But, whatever the result, he is backing United to be the first Premier League champions.· Newcastle were the Cup holders, had been in the final five times in seven years and were three times League champions.· But Limerick are the current league champions and Jim Nelson's men can't afford to take anything for granted.
· The melee was extraordinary, because it took some time for Hunt to realize that he was world champion.· A win against the reigning world champions is always good for morale, but on this occasion it would be especially welcome.· The women also include the former world champion Ann Hughes, who is attempting to recapture the lightweight crown.· There were at least two world champions lining up for the start and many seasoned and experienced drivers.· Now he's tipped as a future world champion.· But tragedy struck again in 1970 when Jochen Rindt, Chapman's third world champion, was killed at Monza.
VERB· If Components Bureau can beat the champions for a second time, then they will virtually be home and dry.· Stuart Bingham, 23, from Basildon beat the defending champion 10-7.· Not many people know this, but Othello is the only game at which a computer has beaten the world champion.· In Istanbul Galatasaray fought back from two goals down to beat defending champions Real Madrid 3-2 in the other quarter-final.
· Although a passionate lover in his youth, after his baptism by Ambrose he became a champion of asceticism.· He has become the champion of ever more research.· Two years later, in 1972, he became the youngest world champion.· Yet at least he had since enjoyed the status of becoming a world champion, courtesy of this coxless fours win.· He is so enthused by his new project that he has suddenly become a champion of intellectual-property laws.· Jacques Villeneuve was the exception, the Indy winner successfully transferring his talent to become world champion in 1997.
· The truth is that gluttony has produced as many world champions and outstanding contenders.· His system produced Olympic champions Comaneci and Retton.· But when she does produce a champion it is one of remarkable character and ability.· The first four rounds are designed to produce 32 prize-winning county champions, who will then go forward to the national rounds.· It is not about producing future Olympic champions.· The best golf of the day had been produced by the boy champion, Tim Baxter, playing off scratch.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1someone or something that has won a competition, especially in sport: - Bobby Rahal, the reigning champion in the current Indy Car series, has tried to develop a domestic car-building programme.
- Cool Californian Wayne Rainey is the reigning champion.
- Fittipaldi's victory made the championship score 4- Points to the pretender and 27 to the reigning champion.
- No reigning champions are left in the championships, although Olympic qualification needs barred several from entering.
- She is also the reigning champion, having won four consecutive games.
- The match of the day is between reigning champions Silksworth and hopefuls Houghton.
- There is not now a reigning champion left in the event.
the world heavyweight boxing champion the Olympic championreigning/defending champion (=the champion at the present time)2champion of something/somebody someone who publicly fights for and defends an aim or principle, such as the rights of a group of people: a champion of women’s rightsCOLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + championan Olympic champion· She's a top international athlete and an Olympic champion.the world champion· At 22, he was the youngest world champion in the history of the game.the defending/reigning champion (=the present one)· Cheah defeated the defending champion in the National Grand Prix.a former champion· The former champion suffered a bad defeat.a junior champion· The cycling team includes British junior champion, Andrew Wright.a national champion· At 16, Gallois is France's youngest national champion.a boxing/tennis/golf etc champion· The show will be opened by the former world boxing champion, Chris Eubank.a heavyweight/middleweight/featherweight etc champion (=one in a particular class of boxers, organized according to their weight)· Graham's reign as middleweight champion ended last night.the 100/200 etc metres champion (=one in a running race)· She's the world 3,000 metres champion.verbsbecome champion· Every sportsperson dreams of becoming a world champion.be crowned champion (=become champion)· In 2007, the Springboks were crowned the rugby champions of the world.champion + NOUNa champion swimmer/boxer/cyclist etc· Lester Piggott is a former champion jockey.champion1 nounchampion2 verb
championchampion2 ●○○ verb [transitive] written VERB TABLE
champion
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | champion |
| he, she, it | champions | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | championed |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have championed |
| he, she, it | has championed | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had championed |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will champion |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have championed |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am championing |
| he, she, it | is championing | |
| you, we, they | are championing | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was championing |
| you, we, they | were championing | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been championing |
| he, she, it | has been championing | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been championing |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be championing |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been championing |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Purcell championed social programs for the elderly.
- For $ 35, 000, this little town plans to build an elevator to comply with legislation championed by Sen.
- Hopefully, these opinion-formers will champion the act's cause and gradually the public will be interested enough to find out more.
- Odd how no traditional civil rights or liberal black leader stepped forth to champion her cause.
- Radio presenters and producers often get great pleasure from seeing the success of a record which they have championed.
- That Aussie on the telly championing the Outback is merely praising its warm-weather virtue.
- The hypothesis has been championed by F. Papi.
- The organizational theorists who have championed the matrixing approach candidly label it an organizational overlay.
- Those, like me, who championed the News Network asked whether we could afford to lose one-and-a-half million new listeners.
THESAURUSsomeone who wins something
the person or thing that wins a race, competition etc: · A prize of £500 will be awarded to the winner.
the one that wins: · The winning team will go through to the grand final in Milan.
(also the title holder American English) someone who has won a competition, especially in sport: · He became the heavyweight boxing champion.
someone who has achieved the fastest speed, the longest distance etc in a sport: · the world high-jump record-holder
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES the defending champion the ladies’ darts team the undisputed world heavyweight champion the reigning Formula One world championCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
(=publicly support an aim)· He has championed the cause of renewable energy since the 1980s.
the defending champion the ladies’ darts team the undisputed world heavyweight champion the reigning Formula One world champion· Because of this experience he came to champion the cause of psychiatry and of a high-minded version of socialism.· If the church is to be truly pro-life, how can it help but champion the cause of battered women?· Indeed, it was a pleasure for us to hear him champion the cause of unilateralism.· Odd how no traditional civil rights or liberal black leader stepped forth to champion her cause.· It is enshrined in draft legislation sponsored by Mario Segni, who championed the cause of electoral reform.· Hopefully, these opinion-formers will champion the act's cause and gradually the public will be interested enough to find out more.· Nor was Wilkins a layman championing a secular cause.· It champions the cause of good beer and good pubs.
· Above all, he should persuade Britain that he can champion ideas.· The Profitboss will risk people championing new ideas, and will support the idea with money, time and effort.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
to publicly fight for and defend an aim or principle, such as the rights of a group of people: - Bobby Rahal, the reigning champion in the current Indy Car series, has tried to develop a domestic car-building programme.
- Cool Californian Wayne Rainey is the reigning champion.
- Fittipaldi's victory made the championship score 4- Points to the pretender and 27 to the reigning champion.
- No reigning champions are left in the championships, although Olympic qualification needs barred several from entering.
- She is also the reigning champion, having won four consecutive games.
- The match of the day is between reigning champions Silksworth and hopefuls Houghton.
- There is not now a reigning champion left in the event.
She championed the cause of religious freedom.