match

/mætʃ/ noun

Definition

A2 a sports competition in which two people or teams compete against each other: a football match a tennis match

› a thin wooden stick that makes fire when you rub one end of it against a rough surface: a box of matches

(Definition of match noun from the Cambridge Essential Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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