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WORLD CUP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does World Cup mean?
• WORLD CUP (noun)
The noun WORLD CUP has 1 sense:
1. a soccer tournament held every four years between national soccer teams to determine a world champion
Familiarity information: WORLD CUP used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A soccer tournament held every four years between national soccer teams to determine a world champion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("World Cup" is a kind of...):
tournament; tourney (a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner)
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