tournament

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtʊənəmənt/, /ˈtɔːnəmənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtʊɹnəmənt/, /ˈtɝnəmənt/, /ˈtɔɹnəmənt/
• Hyphenation: tour‧na‧ment

Noun

tournament (plural tournaments)

1. (historical) During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war.
2. 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.

3. (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

• hat tournament
• pre-tournament
• single-elimination tournament

Descendants

• → Japanese: トーナメント (tōnamento)

Translations

(historical) series of battles

• Armenian: տուրնիր (hy) (turnir)
• Azerbaijani: turnir (az)
• Belarusian: турні́р m (turnír)
• Bulgarian: турни́р (bg) m (turnír)
• Catalan: torneig (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 騎士比武 / 骑士比武 (qíshì bǐwǔ)

• Czech: turnaj (cs) m
• Danish: turnering c
• Esperanto: turniro
• Estonian: turniir
• French: tournoi (fr) m
• Galician: torneo m
• Georgian: ტურნირი (ṭurniri)
• German: Turnier (de) n
• Greek: τουρνουά (el) n (tournouá)
• Hungarian: lovagi torna (hu), torna (hu)
• Italian: torneo (it) m, giostra (it) f
• Japanese: 馬上槍試合 (ばじょうやりじあい, bajō yari jiai)
• Latvian: turnīrs m
• Lithuanian: turnyras m
• Macedonian: турнир m (turnir)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: turnering m or f

  Nynorsk: turnering f

• Polish: turniej (pl) m
• Romanian: turnir (ro) n
• Russian: турни́р (ru) m (turnír)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ту̀рнӣр m

  Roman: tùrnīr (sh) m

• Slovak: turnaj m
• Slovene: turnir (sl) m
• Spanish: torneo (es) m, justa (es) f
• Swedish: tornerspel (sv) n, tornering (sv) c
• Turkish: turnuva (tr)
• Ukrainian: турні́р (uk) m (turnír)
• Uzbek: turnir (uz)

series of games

• Belarusian: турні́р m (turnír), спабо́рніцтва n (spabórnictva)
• Bulgarian: турни́р (bg) m (turnír)
• Catalan: torneig (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 錦標賽 / 锦标赛 (zh) (jǐnbiāosài)

• Czech: turnaj (cs) m
• Dutch: toernooi (nl) n, (Flemish) tornooi (nl) n
• Esperanto: turniro
• Estonian: turniir
• Finnish: turnaus (fi), turnajaiset (fi)
• French: tournoi (fr) m
• Galician: torneo m
• German: Turnier (de) n
• Greek: πρωτάθλημα (el) n (protáthlima)
• Hebrew: טוּרְנִיר m (turnír)
• Hungarian: torna (hu)
• Italian: torneo (it) m, gara (it) f
• Japanese: トーナメント (ja) (tōnamento), 大会 (ja) (たいかい, taikai)
• Korean: 경기대회(競技大會) (ko) (gyeonggidaehoe), 토너먼트 (toneomeonteu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: دەوری (dewrî)

• Latvian: turnīrs m
• Lithuanian: turnyras m
• Manx: yl-chloie m
• Maori: tātāwhāinga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: turnering m or f

  Nynorsk: turnering f

• Persian: تورنمنت (fa) (tornoment)
• Polish: turniej (pl) m
• Portuguese: torneio (pt) m
• Russian: турни́р (ru) m (turnír), состяза́ние (ru) n (sostjazánije)
• Spanish: torneo (es) m, campeonato (es) m
• Swedish: turnering (sv) c
• Turkish: turnuva (tr)
• Ukrainian: турні́р (uk) m (turnír), змага́ння (uk) n (zmahánnja), змага́ння (uk) n (zmahánnja)

(graph theory)

• Italian: torneo (it) m