English Online Dictionary. What means tournament? What does tournament mean?
English
Etymology
Old French tornoiement (Modern French tournoiement) from the verb tornoier.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtʊənəmənt/, /ˈtɔːnəmənt/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈtʊɹnəmənt/, /ˈtɝnəmənt/, /ˈtɔɹnəmənt/
- Hyphenation: tour‧na‧ment
Noun
tournament (plural tournaments)
- (historical) During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war.
- 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.
- (graph theory) A digraph obtained by assigning a direction to each edge in an undirected complete graph.
Synonyms
- (Middle Ages, contests, games, battles): tourney
- (contests, sports, games): tourney
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Japanese: トーナメント (tōnamento)