tournament
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Old French tornoiement (Modern French tournoiement) from the verb tornoier.
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtʊənəmənt/, /ˈtɔːnəmənt/
Audio (UK) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈtʊɹnəmənt/, /ˈtɝnəmənt/, /ˈtɔɹnəmənt/
- Hyphenation: tour‧na‧ment
NounEdit
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.
- 2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England[1]:
- 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.
- (graph theory) A digraph obtained by assigning a direction to each edge in an undirected complete graph.
SynonymsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Japanese: トーナメント (tōnamento)
TranslationsEdit
(historical) series of battles
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series of games
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