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Semifinal

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Noun
  1. 1
    A playoff in the round with only four players or teams left, the stage before the final.

    "Roger Federer extended his grasscourt streak to 57 matches with a victory over Marcos Baghdatis and will play Nicolas Kiefer in the semifinals of the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, Germany."

  2. 2
    one of the two competitions in the next to the last round of an elimination tournament wordnet
  3. 3
    A competition that narrows a field of contestants (semifinalists) to a set of finalists, for a subsequent final.

Etymology

From Latin semifinalis, equivalent to semi- + final.

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