championnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈtʃæm.pi.ən/us/ˈtʃæm.pi.ən/champion noun [ C ] (WINNER)
B1 informal champ someone or something, especially a person or animal, that has beaten all other competitors in a competition:
an Olympic champion
She is the world champion for the third year in succession.
The defending champion will play his first match of the tournament tomorrow.
Who are the reigning European football champions?
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- She's the women's 1500 m champion .
- He looks set to become world champion again this year.
- The defending champion will play her first match of the tournament tomorrow.
- Who are the reigning European football champions?
- And our quiz champion tonight, with 46 points, is Jackie.
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Winners & losers
- all-American
- be a slam dunk idiom
- champ
- championship
- elevator club
- front-runner
- golden generation
- leader
- match
- number one
- record holder
- reigning
- runner-up
- shoo-in
- slam dunk
- superstar
- title
- titleholder
- victor
- yo-yo club
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champion noun [ C ] (SUPPORTER)
C2 a person who enthusiastically supports, defends, or fights for a person, belief, right, or principle:
She has long been a champion of prisoners' rights/the disabled/free speech.
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Activism & pressure groups
- activism
- activist
- agitation
- agitator
- agitprop
- CND
- gay activist
- gherao
- groundswell
- guerrilla
- hunger strike
- lobby
- petitioner
- protester
- radical
- rasta roko
- rebel
- rebellion
- reformer
- stir
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Supporters, members & defenders
championverb [ T ]
uk/ˈtʃæm.pi.ən/us/ˈtʃæm.pi.ən/to support, defend, or fight for a person, belief, right, or principle enthusiastically:
He has championed constitutional reform for many years.
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Backing, supporting & defending
- -backed
- argumentation
- bale out
- bear
- behind every great/successful man there stands a woman idiom
- buttress
- carry
- defensible
- endorse
- espouse
- fight your corner idiom
- right behind sb idiom
- speak
- stake
- stand by sb
- stand by sth
- stand shoulder to shoulder with sb idiom
- strike
- sympathize
- sympathy
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championadjective, exclamation
uk/ˈtʃæm.pi.ən/us/ˈtʃæm.pi.ən/Northern English informalexcellent
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Informal words for good
- A-OK
- ace
- amazeballs
- apple pie
- awesomesauce
- badass
- jim-dandy
- juicy
- killer
- knock
- knock spots off sth idiom
- magic
- rule
- serious
- sight
- smashing
- some
- splendiferous
- steal the show/scene idiom
- stupendous
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