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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

스포츠 팬

Pronunciation / Transliteration: seupocheu paen

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Sports fan/ˈspɔːrts fæn/
nounCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #2500 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"많은 스포츠 팬들이 경기장에 모였다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A person who takes a keen interest in and supports a particular sport, team, or athlete.

    "Thousands of passionate sports fans packed the stadium to cheer for their home team."
  2. 2

    An enthusiastic spectator or follower of competitive physical games.

    "Being a dedicated sports fan means experiencing both the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'sports' derives from the Middle English 'disport', meaning amusement or diversion, while 'fan' is a 19th-century American shortening of 'fanatic', originally stemming from the Latin 'fanaticus', meaning inspired by a divinity or enthusiastically mad. Combined, 'sports fan' emerged in modern English to describe an enthusiast devoted to watching or supporting athletic teams and competitions.

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