tournamentnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈtʊə.nə.mənt//ˈtɔː.nə.mənt/us/ˈtɝː.nə.mənt//ˈtʊr.nə.mənt/B1 a competition for teams or single players in which a series of games is played, and the winners of each game play against each other until only one winner is left:
a tennis/chess/golf tournament
They were defeated in the first round of the tournament.
More examples
- Our ambitions for this tournament have been defeated by the weather.
- The defending champion will play her first match of the tournament tomorrow.
- This tennis tournament is open to both amateurs and professionals.
- A recurring knee injury may have impaired his chances of winning the tournament.
- The tournament is a straight knockout.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Competitions, & parts of competitions
- battle
- battle of wits idiom
- beauty contest
- beauty pageant
- benefit match
- clash
- European night
- exhibition match
- friendly
- handicap
- kickabout
- ladder
- meeting
- nip
- one-horse race
- race
- race meeting
- Rafferty's rules
- the Premier League
- winning post
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