championshipcham‧pi‧on‧ship /ˈtʃæmpiənʃɪp/ ●●● W3 noun 
the women’s figure skating championships Greece won the European Championship.2[countable] the position or period of being a champion SYN title: Warwickshire are the current holders of the cricket championship.3[uncountable + of] written the act of championing something or someoneCOLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + championshipthe world championship· 29 nations competed in the world championship.the national championship· the Canadian National Championshipthe British/European etc championship· The team failed to qualify for the European Championship.an international championship· It was the final game of the international championship.a golf/swimming/tennis championship· the Women's Golf Championshipthe League championship (=for a particular group of teams or players)· the Football League Championshipverbswin/take the championship· He won three national championships at Oklahoma.lose the championship· We lost the championship on the last day.hold the championship· The championships are being held next Sunday at the San Jose Arena.a championship takes place· The world indoor athletics championships took place in Canada.NOUN + championshipa championship game/match· He was playing in his first championship game of the season.a championship race· She was well ahead in the championship race.a championship series (=a number of competitions)· the American League Championship seriesthe championship finals· His team lost in the European Championship Finals.a championship title (=the position of being the champion in a sports competition)· He's trying to hold onto his world championship title.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- At 17, he was the youngest player to win the Men's Tennis Championship.
- Can she win the championship again this year?
- Gutierrez said he has a plan he hopes will carry him through to his first world championship.
- Last year they won the national college basketball championship.
- The sixth game of the World Chess Championship will be broadcast tonight on Channel 6.
- Georgetown was the victim of an inspired underdog when the Hoyas met Big East rival Villanova in the 1985 championship.
- I haven't led the championship this year so I haven't had to think about defending a lead.
- It is a championship for high-performance mass-produced cars which are sold in the United States.
- Manchester United are determined that if they win their first championship for 25 years the celebrations will be in front of their own supporters.
- The championships have the full backing of Durham County Cricket Club.
- The International Squash Rackets Federation will introduce random drug testing at next year's world championships.
- The Raiders have been on the decline since their last Super Bowl championship, 13 years ago.
- They both say the championships are a good idea.
Longman Language Activatorsomeone who likes competing
an organized event in which people try to do an activity or sport better than other people, especially in order to win a prize: · He was awarded first prize in the National Poetry Competition.· A spelling bee is a competition in which people try to correctly spell words.win a competition: · A student from St. Paul won the speechwriting competition.enter a competition (=be in a competition): · Enter our free competition and win a weekend in Paris.competition to do something: · They're holding a competition to come up with a name for the new bridge.hold/have a competition: · The company developing the site had held a competition to find a master-planner.
an important sports event in which players or teams play against each other to decide who is the best in an area, the country, or the world: · The sixth game of the World Chess Championship will be broadcast tonight on Channel 6.win a championship: · At 17, he was the youngest player to win the Men's Tennis Championship.state/national/world etc championship: · Gutierrez said he has a plan he hopes will carry him through to his first world championship.
a competition in a sport or game in which each player or team plays a series of games until one person or team wins: · an international golf tournament· There's a volleyball tournament at Sunset Park which begins today.win a tournament: · Telford won the local five-a-side football tournament.
a competition in which a person or team does an activity, and a group of judges decide which of them is the best: · The event, held every four years in Fort Worth, Texas, is the country's leading piano contest.enter a contest: · Jake always enters the arm-wrestling contest at the local fair.enter somebody in/for a contest: · Harriet decided to enter Henry in the cute baby contest.win a contest: · Jack always wins the pub's karaoke contest.beauty contest (=a contest in which judges decide who is the most beautiful woman): · She won several beauty contests when she was in her early twenties.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYADJECTIVES/NOUN + championship A last-minute touchdown clinched the game. the ladies’ darts teamCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
1[countable] (also championships [plural]) a competition to find which player, team etc is the best in a particular sport: · 29 nations competed in the world championship.
· the Canadian National Championship
· The team failed to qualify for the European Championship.
· It was the final game of the international championship.
· the Women's Golf Championship
(=for a particular group of teams or players)· the Football League Championship
verbs· He won three national championships at Oklahoma.
· We lost the championship on the last day.
· The championships are being held next Sunday at the San Jose Arena.
· The world indoor athletics championships took place in Canada.
NOUN + championship· He was playing in his first championship game of the season.
· She was well ahead in the championship race.
(=a number of competitions)· the American League Championship series
· His team lost in the European Championship Finals.
(=the position of being the champion in a sports competition)· He's trying to hold onto his world championship title.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES (=a chess competition)· Ray's taking part in a chess tournament.
A last-minute touchdown clinched the game.· She decided to enter the golf tournament.
· The course is suitable for modern world-class championship golf.
the ladies’ darts team· The Volvo Cup is the world indoor championship, but Del Mar's new stadium has been built without a roof.· And the World Indoor Athletic championships kick-off on Friday.· His club team Norton, near Stoke in the Midlands, won the world indoor championship contested by squads from 26 countries.
· A venture like that needs just as much planning, evaluation, preparation and practice as the international championship.· Constantine still wears the International Hockey League championship ring from that season.· He had never finished higher than fifth in an international championship.
· Simon, a reserve for the world junior championship this month, won the junior men's event.
· Here, Brian Whittle, in his first major championships, awaited Kriss Akabussi.· Most impressive are his 18 major championships, including six Masters titles.· The tiny athlete believes her rare lapse in Tokyo was just a temporary blip in a career of major championship success.· Opens have been won or not won by the bag-man's performance before and during the world's oldest major championship week.· That was $ 6 million more than Woods, who won three of the four major golf championships last year.· I was very happy to win the Olympics last time as it was the only major championship title I didn't have.· That is to say, he has not won any more major championships.
· However, he shows great commitment to the crew's development from novices to contenders for the national championships.· For winning back-to-back national championships, the Huskers were rather matter-of-fact about it all Tuesday night.· The first nine in each of the four events will be selected for the national championships at Stoke on March 28.· The glamour events are barely under way, but attendance at the national championships is already pleasing organizers.· This is the selection event for the national senior athletics championships at Hull on August 1 and 2.· That Spring and summer, matches were held leading to the first national championships.· I was in a kind of athletic limbo, in between national championship class and true international standard.· And after three years with him, the Wildcats remained without a national championship.
· The 1990 NCAA championship with Stanford.· Then, the best teams battle it out in the NCAA championships.· A hot college hoop dreamer played by Kadeem Hardison dies just as his team is on the edge of an NCAA championship.
· He saw what Faldo had done, winning the Open championship and the Masters in the same year.· Andrews, the Old Course, the Open championship, and the game itself.· He was seventeen when he won the Open championship belt for the first time.
· Today's senior championship contenders all started in the junior motocross events.· Men's championship qualifying is March 10-11, senior championship qualifying is March 7.· Last year they won the senior division championship for a club which won another five trophies.· Ironically the same Jim Carty was Devenish manager when they captured their sixth senior championship in 1985.· This is the selection event for the national senior athletics championships at Hull on August 1 and 2.
NOUN· They were too baffled to be disappointed, too befuddled to be concerned about the conference championship implications.· League and conference championship games had always been played in the home city of one of the teams involved.· Colorado went on to win the conference championship.
· He may even make them championship contenders.· People were talking about them being a championship contender.
· When Warwickshire unexpectedly won the county championship in 1911, the number of people coming to see its matches doubled.· We both support Surrey and watched the team through that glorious period when Surrey won the county championship six years in succession.· As for the representative level I would restructure the county championship.· In the county championship, Northants have had an excellent day's batting against Surrey.· Durham and Cumbria will stage their county championships on Saturday the recommended date instead.· Read in studio Cricket now, and the new county championship season began today.· But Cleveland and Northumberland switched from the recommended second Saturday in June and held their county championships last weekend.
· For the Super Bowl, memories of Aikman bring out all the frenzy of a state football championship.· That year the underdog Dolphins beat the Washington Redskins for the football championship of the world.· Under Vern Friedli, Amphi has won 16 of the last 21 Class 5A-South football championships.
· Sadberge met their rivals, Haughton-le-Skerne, near Darlington, in Haughton church hall yesterday for a championship game.· Neither was it cited by Sports Illustrated, which devoted five pages to the championship game.· It was the Pioneers' fourth trip to the championship game in seven years, all coming during even-numbered years.· League and conference championship games had always been played in the home city of one of the teams involved.· The so-called best two teams in the country will meet in a championship game, which will be alternated among four bowls.· Except for every fourth year when the Rose Bowl will host the national championship game, regardless of which teams are playing.· That summer, playing in a championship game in Santa Barbara, B dislocated her finger.· It has had six championship games this decade, and UMass has won the last four.
· McCrae is now only seven points behind world championship leader Tommi Makkinen.· It forced the championship leaders to bowl and field with a slippery ball.
· Constantine still wears the International Hockey League championship ring from that season.· Mr ferguson has won an astonishing one league championship in only his seven years at Old Trafford.· He won four league championships as a manager.· That means the Bangor club have lifted a double-double in league championship and cup competition this season.· Amongst adult clubs, there was some success as well when Manchester Deaf F.C. won their local hearing league championship.
· However, the field will again be widened and seating capacity adjusted to 54, 000 for the championship match.· In those five seasons of triumph, 86 of their 140 championship matches were won and only 20 lost.· Declan Bonner was not in the Donegal line-up - he was far too busy running the show in a club championship match.· Meanwhile, Essex and Lancashire were again frustrated by the Manchester weather on the final day of their championship match.· Enter the four-day county championship match, which this season becomes the norm.
· The championship race is wide open.· He was well ahead in the championship race.· After Pescara, it is the second longest circuit to be used for a Formula One championship race.· They've got stronger since then and have set the pace in the championship race this season.· Steve Kerton from Gloucestershire leads the powerboat championship race by just one point.· At least Linfield are still above us in the championship race so you can keep on writing about them every day.· The following season, Nijinsky took the Gladness Stakes on his reappearance and then won five successive championship races.· Other than in large championship races, windsurfers tend to use fairly short beats so their influence is decreased.
· But it will be desperately close as two exceptionally committed sides bid to keep their championship season alive.· Barnett has no illusions about a championship season, or even a guaranteed postseason berth.· Read in studio Cricket now, and the new county championship season began today.· Although in non-stop pain, he has put off the operation until the Formula One championship season is over.
· They lost in the championship series, 4-3 to the Houston Rockets.· All the long seasons ending with championship series, all the tough games, it takes a toll.
· He was a well-known high school star, winning a state championship.· As a junior, she led her team to the state championships.· She then became a star basketball player in high school, taking her team to the state championship.· Next Saturday, the state championship for casting accuracy will be held, with two age groups, 7-10 and 11-14.· If that were the case, then wouldn't the girls athletics program be overburdened with athletic hopefuls dreaming of state championships?
· Hopefully, mine will turn out like hers, although just playing on another championship team and contributing would be enough.· She competed on five consecutive world championship teams, a previously unheard-of feat.· I want to play on a championship team, at least have a chance to get to the Finals.· He has a toughness and maturity that became the personality of Michigan State's national championship team.
· I was very happy to win the Olympics last time as it was the only major championship title I didn't have.
· It also turned out to be Lynch's last world championship fight.· Former Boro rider Paul Bentley, who won the recent World championship qualifying round on his old track, is a reserve.· This is the fourth annual world championships, following events in Berlin, London and Toronto.· Seems a funny place for a World championship?· McCrae is now only seven points behind world championship leader Tommi Makkinen.· Well, it ain't easy to win a world championship you know.· Ferrari profited from these ground-effects catastrophes with a relatively conventional car, the 312T4 that gave Jody Scheckter the 1979 world championship.
VERB· All of which means that Shorts require just three points from their final match of the season to clinch the championship.· A win tonight will clinch the Pac-10 championship for Stanford, now ranked number five in the nation.
· Yet Fuji held the world championship.· But Cleveland and Northumberland switched from the recommended second Saturday in June and held their county championships last weekend.· The majestic indoor arena holds its premier four-day championship show from Thursday 23 to Sunday 26 September.
· I haven't led the championship this year so I haven't had to think about defending a lead.· Steve Kerton from Gloucestershire leads the powerboat championship race by just one point.· So Lauda won and for the first time he led the championship: 48 to 45.5 for Prost.
· And if it meant that Senna were to lose the championship, then the legal ramifications would be far-reaching.· They lost in the championship series, 4-3 to the Houston Rockets.
· Hopefully, mine will turn out like hers, although just playing on another championship team and contributing would be enough.· I want to play on a championship team, at least have a chance to get to the Finals.· That summer, playing in a championship game in Santa Barbara, B dislocated her finger.· Goodrich is one of the few athletes in sports history to have played on championship teams at every level.· I was playing in the championship, but I felt we were in different tournaments altogether.
· Bigfoot is the reigning king, a truck that has won more races and championships than any other.· Honda cars had won several championships.· After adding the Ravensworth Bowl to the Seaton Salver he won prior to his country championship victory.· Imagine coming in and the only way you can back it up is by winning a championship.· He won the national championship in one season and finished fairly high in another season.· They play really smart ball and they often win championships, despite having a lineup which is somewhat less than imposing.· This style has been good enough to win two championships.
the women’s figure skating championships Greece won the European Championship.2[countable] the position or period of being a champion SYN title: Warwickshire are the current holders of the cricket championship.3[uncountable + of] written the act of championing something or someoneCOLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + championshipthe world championship· 29 nations competed in the world championship.the national championship· the Canadian National Championshipthe British/European etc championship· The team failed to qualify for the European Championship.an international championship· It was the final game of the international championship.a golf/swimming/tennis championship· the Women's Golf Championshipthe League championship (=for a particular group of teams or players)· the Football League Championshipverbswin/take the championship· He won three national championships at Oklahoma.lose the championship· We lost the championship on the last day.hold the championship· The championships are being held next Sunday at the San Jose Arena.a championship takes place· The world indoor athletics championships took place in Canada.NOUN + championshipa championship game/match· He was playing in his first championship game of the season.a championship race· She was well ahead in the championship race.a championship series (=a number of competitions)· the American League Championship seriesthe championship finals· His team lost in the European Championship Finals.a championship title (=the position of being the champion in a sports competition)· He's trying to hold onto his world championship title.