Words Containing Sport
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Definition of sport
- n. - That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
- n. - Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.
- n. - That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play;
a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
- n. - Play; idle jingle.
- n. - Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing,
racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.
- n. - A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which
has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal
variety or growth. See Sporting plant, under Sporting.
- n. - A sportsman; a gambler.
- v. i. - To play; to frolic; to wanton.
- v. i. - To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to
be given to betting, as upon races.
- v. i. - To trifle.
- v. i. - To assume suddenly a new and different character from the
rest of the plant or from the type of the species; -- said of a bud,
shoot, plant, or animal. See Sport, n., 6.
- v. t. - To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the
reciprocal pronoun.
- v. t. - To represent by any knd of play.
- v. t. - To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as,
to sport a new equipage.
- v. t. - To give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out
in an easy and copious manner; -- with off; as, to sport off epigrams.
Syllable Information
The word sport is a 5 letter word that has 1 syllable . The syllable division for sport is: sport