badminton vs singles

badminton and singles both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
badminton	Yes	No	No	No
singles	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, singles is a hyponym of badminton; that is, singles is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than badminton:

badminton: a game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net
singles: badminton played with one person on each side

Other hyponyms of badminton include battledore, battledore and shuttlecock, doubles.

badminton (noun)	singles (noun)
a game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net	tennis played with one person on each side
	badminton played with one person on each side