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Meaning of 'sport'
Meaning of 'sport' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Sport 
[ n.]
- That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement. [ n.]- Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.
- That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
- Play; idle jingle.
- Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.
- 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.
- A sportsman; a gambler.
2. Sport [ 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.
- To trifle.
- 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.
3. Sport [ v. t.]
- To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the
reciprocal pronoun. [ v. t.]- To represent by any knd of play.
- To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as, to sport a new equipage.
- To give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in an easy and copious manner; -- with off; as, to sport off epigrams.
Meaning of 'sport' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. sport [ n]
[ n]Meaning (1):
- a person known for the way she (or he) behaves when teased or defeated or subjected to trying circumstances
- a person known for the way she (or he) behaves when teased or defeated or subjected to trying circumstances
Example in sentence:
- a good sport;
- a poor sport
Meaning (2):
- verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously)
- verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously)
Example in sentence:
- he became a figure of fun;
- he said it in sport
2. sport [ v]
[ v]Meaning (3):
- wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner
- wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner
Example in sentence:
- she was sporting a new hat
Meaning (4):
- play boisterously
- play boisterously
Example in sentence:
- The children frolicked in the garden;
- the gamboling lambs in the meadows;
- The toddlers romped in the playroom
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