Other forms: championships
A championship is the competition that decides who is best. Win the championship, the world championship, a championship match.
The plural is often used for one event with many titles: the world athletics championships. In English football, the Championship with a capital letter is the division below the Premier League, which confuses everybody outside the country. Note champion, both the winner and, as a verb, meaning to support a cause publicly; and that a championship is the title as well as the tournament that awards it.
1nounchampionshipThe competition that decides who is best.
“The team won the championship after a thrilling final.”
2nountitleThe title held by the winner.
“The boxer lost his championship to a younger fighter.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
championship is a competition or title.
Proto-Indo-European
*kh₂em-
Middle English
champioun
English
champion
English, today
championship
Built from
From champion + -ship. champion comes from Middle English champioun. From Middle English champioun, from Old French champion, from Medieval Latin campio (“combatant in a duel, champion”), from Frankish kampijō (“fighter”), from Proto-West Germanic kampijō (“combat soldier”), a derivative of kampijan (“to battle, to campaign”), itself a derivative of kamp (“battlefield, battle”), ultimately a borrowing in West-Germanic from Latin campus (“a field, a plain, a place of action”). Cognate with Old English cempa, cempa (“soldier, warrior, champion”), Old High German kempfo, kempfo (“fighter, warrior, champion”), whence archaic German Kempfe (“fighter”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA