Tournament

//ˈtʊənəmənt// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war. historical
  2. 2
    a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner wordnet
  3. 3
    A series of games; either the same game played many times, or a succession of games related by a single theme; played competitively to determine a single winning team or individual.

    "England secured their place at Euro 2012 with a scrambled draw in Montenegro - but Wayne Rooney was sent off and will miss the start of the tournament."

  4. 4
    a series of jousts between knights contesting for a prize wordnet
  5. 5
    A digraph obtained by assigning a direction to each edge in an undirected complete graph.

Synonyms

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tourneyboutcarouselcompetitionconcourscontest

Example

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"The English team beat the Brazilian team in the international football tournament."

Etymology

From Old French tornoiement (Modern French tournoiement) from the verb tornoier.

Related phrases

hat tournamentpre-tournamentsingle-elimination tournamentmiddle ages

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