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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
badminton
 
SYLLABICATION:bad·min·ton
PRONUNCIATION:  bdmntn, -mtn
NOUN: A sport played by volleying a shuttlecock back and forth over a high narrow net by means of a light, long-handled racket.
ETYMOLOGY:After Badminton, the Duke of Beaufort's country seat in western England.
 
 
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