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      "\u02c8\u02a7\u00e6mpi\u0259n"
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      "From Middle English champioun, from Old French champion, from Medieval Latin campio (\u201ccombatant in a duel, champion\u201d), from Frankish kampij\u014d (\u201cfighter\u201d), from Proto-West Germanic kampij\u014d (\u201ccombat soldier\u201d), a derivative of Proto-West Germanic kampijan (\u201cto battle, to campaign\u201d), itself a derivative of Proto-West Germanic kamp (\u201cbattlefield, battle\u201d), ultimately a borrowing in West-Germanic from Latin campus (\u201ca field, a plain, a place of action\u201d)."
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            "mean": "An ongoing winner in a game or contest.\nThe defending champion is expected to defeat his challenger."
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            "mean": "Someone who is chosen to represent a group of people in a contest.\nBarcelona is eligible to play in FIFA Club World Cup as the champion of Europe."
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            "mean": "Someone who fights for a cause or status.\nSynonym: paladin\nEmmeline Pankhurst was a champion of women's suffrage.\n2012,  Sue Watling; Jim Rogers,  Social Work in a Digital Society, page 34:Specific outcomes from this policy included the appointment of a Digital Champion to drive forward the efforts to get more of the excluded to be included."
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            "mean": "Someone who fights on another's behalf.\nchampion of the poor"
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            "mean": "(botany) A particularly notable member of a plant species, such as one of great size.\n1938 November 5,  Puritan Cordage Mills,  \u201cTake a Lesson from a Lily\u201d, in Elmer C. Hole, editor, American Lumberman\u200e, volume 65, number 3138, Chicago, page 55:Pictured above is an actual photograph of a Regal Lily that famed all over the world. It's a champion plant\u2014because in one season it produced a total of 89 blooms from one bulb, an amazing record among lilies.\n2013,  Robin Wall Kimmerer,  Braiding Sweetgrass, 1st edition, Milkweed Editions, \u2192ISBN, \u2192LCCN, pages 43\u201344:There was a news clipping there with a photo of a magnificent American elm, which had just been named the champion for its species, the largest of its kind.\n2022 February 10,  Christopher Doyle,  \u201cStockton professor, students discover largest 'champion tree' in New Jersey\u201d, in  The Press of Alantic City\u200e, archived from the original on 2022-02-10:He  was searching for red maple trees to be tapped for syrup as part of the Stockton Maple Project when he came across the new champion tree."
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            "mean": "(attributive) Acting as a champion; having defeated all one's competitors."
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            "mean": "(attributive) Excellent; beyond compare."
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            "mean": "(predicative, Ireland, Britain, dialect) Excellent; brilliant; superb; deserving of high praise.\n\"That rollercoaster was champion,\" laughed Vinny."
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            "mean": "(transitive) To promote, advocate, or act as a champion for (a cause, etc.)."
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            "mean": "(obsolete, transitive) To challenge."
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            "mean": "John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors(1989),\u201cchampion\u201d, inThe Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford Clarendon Press, \u2192ISBN.\n\u201cchampion\u201d, inWebster\u2019s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass. G.  C. Merriam, 1913, \u2192OCLC.\n\u201cchampion\u201d, inThe Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y. The Century Co., 1911, \u2192OCLC.\nchampion at OneLook Dictionary Search"
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