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tournament

noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtʊənəmənt/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtɔːnəmənt/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: /ˈtʊɹnəmənt/
  • US: /ˈtɝnəmənt/
  • US: /ˈtɔɹnəmənt/
  • CMU ARPABET: T UH1 R N AH0 M AH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: historical

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A digraph obtained by assigning a direction to each edge in an undirected complete graph.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: graph-theory, mathematics, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: tourney

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: contest, competition

Narrower terms: World Cup, elimination tournament, open, round robin

5

noun

Meaning 5

a series of jousts between knights contesting for a prize

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: contest, competition

History

Etymology

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

Across languages

Translations

83 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Armenian: տուրնիր (turnir) — (historical) series of battles
  • Azerbaijani: turnir — (historical) series of battles
  • Belarusian: турні́р (turnír) — (historical) series of battles
  • Bulgarian: турни́р (turnír) — (historical) series of battles
  • Catalan: torneig — (historical) series of battles
  • Chinese Mandarin: 騎士比武 /骑士比武 (qíshì bǐwǔ) — (historical) series of battles
  • Czech: turnaj — (historical) series of battles
  • Danish: turnering — (historical) series of battles
  • Esperanto: turniro — (historical) series of battles
  • Estonian: turniir — (historical) series of battles
  • French: tournoi — (historical) series of battles
  • Galician: torneo — (historical) series of battles
  • Georgian: ტურნირი (ṭurniri) — (historical) series of battles
  • German: Turnier — (historical) series of battles
  • Greek: τουρνουά (tournouá) — (historical) series of battles
  • Hungarian: lovagi torna — (historical) series of battles
  • Hungarian: torna — (historical) series of battles
  • Italian: torneo — (historical) series of battles
  • Italian: giostra — (historical) series of battles
  • Japanese: 馬上槍試合 (bajō yari jiai) — (historical) series of battles
  • Latvian: turnīrs — (historical) series of battles
  • Lithuanian: turnyras — (historical) series of battles
  • Macedonian: турнир (turnir) — (historical) series of battles
  • Norwegian Bokmål: turnering — (historical) series of battles
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: turnering — (historical) series of battles
  • Polish: turniej — (historical) series of battles
  • Romanian: turnir — (historical) series of battles
  • Russian: турни́р (turnír) — (historical) series of battles
  • Serbo-Croatian: ту̀рнӣр — (historical) series of battles
  • Serbo-Croatian: tùrnīr — (historical) series of battles
  • Slovak: turnaj — (historical) series of battles
  • Slovene: turnir — (historical) series of battles
  • Spanish: torneo — (historical) series of battles
  • Spanish: justa — (historical) series of battles
  • Swedish: tornerspel — (historical) series of battles
  • Swedish: tornering — (historical) series of battles
  • Turkish: turnuva — (historical) series of battles
  • Ukrainian: турні́р (turnír) — (historical) series of battles
  • Uzbek: turnir — (historical) series of battles
  • Belarusian: турні́р (turnír) — series of games
  • Belarusian: спабо́рніцтва (spabórnictva) — series of games
  • Bulgarian: турни́р (turnír) — series of games
  • Catalan: torneig — series of games
  • Chinese Mandarin: 錦標賽 /锦标赛 (jǐnbiāosài) — series of games
  • Czech: turnaj — series of games
  • Dutch: toernooi — series of games
  • Dutch: tornooi — series of games
  • Esperanto: turniro — series of games
  • Estonian: turniir — series of games
  • Finnish: turnaus — series of games
  • Finnish: turnajaiset — series of games
  • French: tournoi — series of games
  • Galician: torneo — series of games
  • German: Turnier — series of games
  • Greek: πρωτάθλημα (protáthlima) — series of games
  • Hebrew: טוּרְנִיר (turnír) — series of games
  • Hungarian: torna — series of games
  • Italian: torneo — series of games
  • Italian: gara — series of games
  • Japanese: トーナメント (tōnamento) — series of games
  • Japanese: 大会 (taikai) — series of games
  • Kazakh: турнир (turnir) — series of games
  • Korean: 경기대회 (gyeonggidaehoe) — series of games
  • Korean: 토너먼트 (toneomeonteu) — series of games
  • Central Kurdish: دەوری (dewrî) — series of games
  • Latvian: turnīrs — series of games
  • Lithuanian: turnyras — series of games
  • Manx: yl-chloie — series of games
  • Māori: tātāwhāinga — series of games
  • Norwegian Bokmål: turnering — series of games
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: turnering — series of games
  • Persian: تورنمنت (tornoment) — series of games
  • Polish: turniej — series of games
  • Portuguese: torneio — series of games
  • Russian: турни́р (turnír) — series of games
  • Russian: состяза́ние (sostjazánije) — series of games
  • Spanish: torneo — series of games
  • Spanish: campeonato — series of games
  • Swedish: turnering — series of games
  • Turkish: turnuva — series of games
  • Ukrainian: турні́р (turnír) — series of games
  • Ukrainian: змага́ння (zmahánnja) — series of games
  • Italian: torneo — (graph theory)
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