tournaments

Meaning of tournaments

plural noun
  1. (in a sport or game) a series of contests between a number of competitors, competing for an overall prize.
  2. (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 tournaments

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of tournaments is: tournament.
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Hyphenation of tournaments

tour-na-ments

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • tournaments is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

tournaments synonyms

Meaning an event or contest in which people take part in order to establish superiority or supremacy in a particular area:

competition

Meaning an event in which people compete for supremacy in a sport or other activity, or in a quality:

contest

Meaning a contest for the position of champion in a sport or game:

championship

Meaning a number of events, objects, or people of a similar or related kind coming one after another:

series

Meaning an assembly of people for a particular purpose, especially for formal discussion:

meeting

Meaning an organized event at which a number of races or other athletic contests are held:

meet

Meaning each of several particular contests making up a sports competition:

event

Meaning a contest in which people or teams compete against each other in a particular sport:

match

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:

trial

Meaning a wrestling or boxing match:

bout

Meaning a piece of equipment or furniture which is fixed in position in a building or vehicle:

fixture

Meaning a violent confrontation:

clash

Meaning a medieval sporting contest in which two opponents on horseback fought with lances:

joust

Meaning a medieval sporting contest in which two opponents on horseback, typically knights, fight with lances:

jousting

Meaning a tournament, especially a medieval joust:

tourney

Meaning a combat for exercise or sport between two men on horseback with lances; a joust:

tilt

Meaning a number of connected items or names written or printed consecutively, typically one below the other:

lists

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