1 a person, team, etc. that has won a competition, especially in a sport:
the world basketball champions * a champion jockey / boxer / swimmer * the reigning champion (= the person who is champion now)
2 ~ (of sth) a person who fights for, or speaks in support of, a group of people or a belief:
She was a champion of the poor all her life.
verb [VN] to fight for or speak in support of a group of people or a belief:
He has always championed the cause of gay rights.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for champion is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is champion a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, champion is tagged as noun.
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