tournament
//ˈtʊənəmənt//
Forms
- Plural
- tournaments
Definitions
1.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.
- England secured their place at Euro 2012 with a scrambled draw in Montenegro - but Wayne Rooney was sent off and will miss the start of the tournament.
2.A digraph obtained by assigning a direction to each edge in an undirected complete graph.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3115
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Old French tornoiement (Modern French tournoiement) from the verb tornoier.