champion
/ˈt͡ʃæm.pi.ən/ noun B1- An ongoing winner in a game or contest. · The defending champion is expected to defeat his challenger.
- Someone who is chosen to represent a group of people in a contest. · Barcelona is eligible to play in FIFA Club World Cup as the champion of Europe.
- Someone who fights for a cause or status. · Emmeline Pankhurst was a champion of women's suffrage.
- Someone who fights on another's behalf. · champion of the poor
- A particularly notable member of a plant species, such as one of great size.
Plural champions
From the library
won’t it?” thundered the champion of the root of evil.
Any attempt at recovering the bodies was absolutely hopeless, and there, deep down in that dreadful caldron of swirling water and seething foam, will lie for all time the most dangerous criminal and the foremost champion of the law of their generation.
Of their terrible chief few details came out during the proceedings, and if I have now been compelled to make a clear statement of his career it is due to those injudicious champions who have endeavoured to clear his memory by attacks upon him whom I shall ever regard as the best and the wisest man whom I have ever known.
Even during the off-season, loyal supporters eagerly debate trades and predict future champions.
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