Origin: 1300-1400 Probably from Anglo-French tenetz! take!, receive! (as called out by the player first hitting the ball in tennis), from tenir; ➔ TENANT
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS►played tennis
We played tennis all afternoon.
a game for two people or two pairs of people who use rackets to hit a small soft ball backward and forward over a net: a game of tennis We played tennis all afternoon. a tennis racket