tournament
Meaning of tournament
- (in a sport or game) a series of contests between a number of competitors, competing for an overall prize.
- (in the Middle Ages) a sporting event in which two knights (or two groups of knights) jousted on horseback with blunted weapons, each trying to knock the other off, the winner receiving a prize.
Middle English (in tournament (sense 2)): from Anglo-Norman French variants of Old French torneiement, from torneier ‘take part in a tourney’ (see tourney).
Information about tournament
- It is a name.
- The plural form of tournament is: tournaments.
- Languages in which tournament is used:
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Hyphenation of tournament
tour-na-ment
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- tournament is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
tournament synonyms
Meaning tourney:
Meaning an event or contest in which people take part in order to establish superiority or supremacy in a particular area:
Meaning an event in which people compete for supremacy in a sport or other activity, or in a quality:
Meaning a contest for the position of champion in a sport or game:
Meaning a number of events, objects, or people of a similar or related kind coming one after another:
Meaning an assembly of people for a particular purpose, especially for formal discussion:
Meaning an organized event at which a number of races or other athletic contests are held:
Meaning each of several particular contests making up a sports competition:
Meaning a contest in which people or teams compete against each other in a particular sport:
Meaning a formal examination of evidence by a judge, typically before a jury, in order to decide guilt in a case of criminal or civil proceedings:
Meaning a wrestling or boxing match:
Meaning a piece of equipment or furniture which is fixed in position in a building or vehicle:
Meaning a violent confrontation:
Meaning a medieval sporting contest in which two opponents on horseback fought with lances:
Meaning a medieval sporting contest in which two opponents on horseback, typically knights, fight with lances:
Meaning a combat for exercise or sport between two men on horseback with lances; a joust:
Meaning a number of connected items or names written or printed consecutively, typically one below the other:
Translation of tournament
Words that rhyme with tournament
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