Word Finder - champion

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An ongoing winner in a game or contest.

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The defending champion is expected to defeat his challenger.

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Someone who is chosen to represent a group of people in a contest.

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Barcelona is eligible to play in FIFA Club World Cup as the champion of Europe.

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Someone who fights for a cause or status.

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champion of women's suffrage

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• paladin

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Someone who fights on another's behalf.

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champion of the poor

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To promote, advocate, or act as a champion for (a cause, etc.).

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To challenge.

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Acting as a champion; that has defeated all one's competitors.

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Excellent; beyond compare.

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(predicative) Excellent; brilliant; superb; deserving of high praise.

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"That rollercoaster was champion," laughed Vinny.

He was Queen Catherine's confessor and her only champion and advocate.

They in return gladly accepted a champion who lent them the prestige and influence of the church.

He is a two-time world heavyweight boxing champion.

Hence the strength with which a champion of the faith like Anselm insists on the subordination of reason.

The only link was to the Champion Pet Foods, and specifically Orijen.The company suspected that the problem was a result of irradiation.

As Apollo's champion Hercules is Daphnephoros, and fights Cycnus and Amyntor to keep open the sacred way from Tempe to Delphi.

He is now the champion of freedom and purity of life, like Nathan when he confronted David for the murder of Uriah.

The latter found their champion in Elijah, whose history reflects the prophetic teaching of more than one age.

Bad news for former champion jockey Kieron Fallon - the High Court on the Strand has refused to overturn his British riding ban.

Her career highlights also include interviewing champion boxer Amir Khan and veteran newsreader Trevor McDonald.

And the 2003 European Under 19 champion also got a nasty shock.

But when Augustine is concerned to reconcile the reality of individual freedom with humanity's universal need of redemption and with the absolute voluntariness of Divine Grace, he is constrained to contradict most of those postulates of which in his advocacy of libertarianism he was an eager champion.

Orijen cat food is made by Champion Pet Foods, ltd.

The winner from each of these seven groups then moves on to compete for the highly coveted Best in Show award and prestigious title of National Champion.

Out of a $225,000.00 pot, a whopping $50,000.00 is awarded to the dog lucky enough to be crowned the National Champion.

This Champion of the Elder Gods is a very popular anti-hero among gamers.

He had, however, the advantage of now being able to present himself to the Greeks as the champion of Apollo in a holy war, and in 352 the Macedonian army won a complete victory over the Pheraeans and Phocians.

He appeared there as the champion of the king and encouraged him in his reactionary policy.

But the dispute lasted for many years (Leo of Armenia continuing to champion the cause of his great-nephew), and long occupied the attention of Innocert III.

In these debates Douglas, the champion of his party, was over-matched in clearness and force of reasoning, and lacked the great moral earnestness of his opponent; but he dexterously extricated himself time and again from difficult argumentative positions, and retained sufficient support to win the immediate prize.

The king of WUrttemberg, ever the champion of German particularism, gave expression to his feelings by issuing a new constitution to his kingdom, and appealed to his relative, the emperor Alexander, who had not yet been won over by Metternich to the policy of war ii outrance against reform, and took this occasion to issue a fresh manifesto of his Liberal creed.

In 1874, with his brother Alexander Forrest (born 1849), he explored eastwards from Champion Bay, following as far as possible the 26th parallel, and striking the telegraph line between Adelaide and Port Darwin; a distance of about 2000 m.

During his service in the Senate (1849-1855) he was pre-eminently the champion of anti-slavery in that body, and no one spoke more ably than he did against the Compromise Measures of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Bill of 1854.

Leopold, therefore, who made his debut on the European stage as the executor of the ban of the Empire against the insurgent Liegeois, was free to pose as the champion of order against the Revolution, without needing to fear the resentment of his subjects.

He was also once more stirred up to play the part of a Hellenic champion in yet another Punic war.

Pyrrhus (q.v.) came as the champion of the western Greeks against all barbarians, whether Romans in Italy or Carthaginians in Sicily.

He took the idea that the Bank of the United States was leading the money power against him, and that he was the champion of the masses of democracy and of the common people.

Wayne Rooney has ' challenged ' boxing champion Ricky Hatton to a fight.

He early became a Protestant champion, and the one extant anecdote of his youth occurs in his address "to the Godly and Christian reader" prefixed to his Plaine Discovery.

The Champion guys are all so enthusiastic and dedicated and it would be good to reward them with a rostrum finish.

The former British champion Bill Hartston said that " chess does n't drive people mad, it keeps mad people sane ".

A shortlist of six contenders also included boxer Lennox Lewis, tennis player Tim Henman and world triple jump champion Jonathan Edwards.

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At this point, Champion Dogs and Bitches who are also entered for Breed Competition will also be called in and placed in front of the Winners Dog and Bitch.

The famous head-cutting challenge, so admirably told in Syr Gawayne and the Grene Knighte, was originally connected with the Irish champion.

The conflict assumed the character of a struggle between Protestantism and Roman Catholicism, in which Philip appeared as the champion of the Church.

Charlemagne's wars in Italy, Spain and Saxony formed part of the common epic material, and there are references to his wars against the Sla y s; but especially he remained in the popular mind as the great champion of Christianity against the creed of Mahomet, and even his Norman and Saxon enemies became Saracens in current legend.

He also crossed swords more than once with the Dutch Presbyterian champion, Voetius, still remembered for his attacks on Descartes.

Then, the ancient heresy laws having been revived, came the burnings of Rogers, Hooker, Latimer, Ridley, Cranmer and many a less noteworthy champion of the new religion.

Champion of the papacy and in secret league with the Lombard cities he was able to defy the common enemy, Frederick II.

The Hungarian Government could claim the right to take independent economic measures for her own territory in war-time; a joint arrangement was only possible for the territories of the Dual Monarchy - which were united for tariff purposes - by agreements between the Austrian and Hungarian Governments; and since neither Government was exclusively concerned to carry out an adjustment of economic conditions solely in accordance with what was necessary for waging war and holding out with the supplies at their disposal, but each had also to champion the interests of one half of the monarchy against the other, the negotiations between the two Governments were often attended with the greatest difficulties, and constantly ended unsatisfactorily.

That his exploits made an exceptional impression on the popular mind is certain from the mass of legendary history that clustered round his name; he became, says Mr Davis, "in popular eyes the champion of the English national cause."

It not only brought him into unremitting conflict with the Protestants and the nobles of France, but also made him the enemy of his mother, of his brother Gaston of Orleans, who made himself the champion of the cause of the nobles, and sometimes even of his wife.

Throughout his early and married life he was the champion of Jewish rights, and he did not withdraw from public affairs until 1874, the year of the death of his wife Adelhei Beermann, whom he had married in 1822.

His abilities, and his zeal as a champion of the church, secured him rapid promotion.

When it was decided to elect decemvirs for another year, he who had formerly been looked upon as the champion of the aristocracy, suddenly came forward as the friend of the people, and was himself re-elected together with several plebeians.

This champion of freedom was very eloquent as to the wrongs of the szlachta, and proposed that the assembly should proceed in a body to Warsaw and there formally renounce their allegiance.

Cornwall is at this time in subjection to the king of Ireland, Gormond, and every third year must pay tribute; the Irish champion, Morolt, brother to the queen, arrives to claim his toll of thirty youths and as many maidens.

Coming forward as the champion of Islam against the infidels, Abd-el-Kader was proclaimed amir at Mascara in 1832.

From about 168 B.C. the head of the Pergamene school was Crates of Mallus, who (like the Stoics) was an adherent of the principle of " anomaly " in grammar, and was thus opposed to Aristarchus of Alexandria, the champion of " analogy."