tournament
noun /ˈtʊənəmənt/, /ˈtɔːnəmənt/
/ˈtʊrnəmənt/
- (North American English, less frequent tourney)a sports competition involving a number of teams or players who take part in different games and must leave the competition if they lose. The competition continues until there is only the winner left.
- a golf/tennis/soccer/chess tournament
Wordfinder- athlete
- champion
- compete
- fixture
- match
- record
- spectator
- sport
- stadium
- tournament
Extra ExamplesTopics Sports: ball and racket sportsb2- Several top teams have agreed to play (in) the tournament.
- She retired from tournament golf last year.
- The loser will be out of the tournament.
- her first tournament win of the season
- He has criticized tournament organizers for ticketing problems.
- I was invited to compete in a charity five-a-side tournament.
- She finished fifth in the Olympic qualifying tournament.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- basketball
- chess
- golf
- …
- enter
- play
- play in
- …
- take place
- victory
- win
- leader
- …
- in a/the tournament
- out of a/the tournament
- a competition in the Middle Ages between knights on horseback fighting to show courage and skill
- a medieval jousting tournament
Word OriginMiddle English (in sense (2)): from Anglo-Norman French variants of Old French torneiement, from torneier ‘take part in a tourney’, based on Latin tornus ‘a turn’.