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champion

Definition

  • noun: someone or something (such as a team or an animal) that has won a contest or competition especially in sports
  • noun: a militant advocate or defender
  • verb: to fight or speak publicly in support of (a person, belief, cause, etc.)
  • verb: to protect or fight for as a champion
  • often used before another noun
  • synonyms: warrior, warrior, hero

Examples

  • Our team will play the defending/reigning/current 'champions' next week.

  • She was a lawyer and a 'champion of' children's rights.

  • the newly crowned national/world/Olympic 'champions'

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) as you know, to the power of the Fleece. And therefore, it must be a satyr who will guide a half-blood on this quest. Thanks a lot. Ichneutae! Will you guide the champion? Oh, yeah. Good. Great! That's great! Yeah! As to who that champion might be, our plight calls for only our finest hero. (..)
    2013 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters