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

  • (..) Come now... You really think your.. The only one who can play this game? Trap arm... Target weakness... Follow with haymaker. Ahh..There we find the boxing champion of Cambridge. Competent... But predictable. Now... Allow me to reply. Also running dry, Adjust strategy Wound taking it's toll. (..)
    2011 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
  • (..) Well... According to your diorama. Professor James Moriarty. Indeed. Mathematical genius. Celebrated author and lecturer. Boxing champion at Cambridge... Where he'd made friends with our current Prime Minister. Do you have any evidence to substantiate your claim? ♪ Taps ♪ (..)
    2011 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows