championship

noun

• 1a contest for the position of champion in a sport or game: the final round of the championship will be in Japan the team’s final match before the European championships [with modifier]:the world chess championship [as modifier]:a championship course
• the position or title of the winner of a championship contest: Louise Gibson retained the women’s championship
• (the Championship) the second division of professional soccer in England and Wales.

• 2 [mass noun] the vigorous support or defence of a person or cause:Alan’s championship of his estranged wife