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noun
- a game played on a rectangular court by two players or two pairs of players equipped with light rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a high net that divides the court in half.
noun
- a game played with rackets and a shuttlecock, which is hit back and forth across a high net
- Also called: badminton cup a long refreshing drink of claret with soda water and sugar
noun
- a village in SW England, in South Gloucestershire unitary authority, Gloucestershire: site of Badminton House, seat of the Duke of Beaufort; annual horse trials
1874, from Badminton House, name of Gloucestershire estate of the Duke of Beaufort, where the game first was played in England, mid-19c., having been picked up by British officers from Indian poona. The place name is Old English Badimyncgtun (972), “estate of (a man called) Baduhelm.”