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Definition of Tournament

1. Noun. A sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner.

2. Noun. A series of jousts between knights contesting for a prize.

Definition of Tournament

1. n. A mock fight, or warlike game, formerly in great favor, in which a number of combatants were engaged, as an exhibition of their address and bravery; hence, figuratively, a real battle.

Definition of Tournament

1. Noun. (historical) During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war. ¹

2. Noun. 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. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tournament

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tournament

touristified touristifies touristify touristifying touristlike touristry tourists touristscape touristscapes touristy

tourmaline tourmalines tourmate tourmates tourn tournament (current term) tournaments tournedos tourneries tournery

tourney tourneyed tourneying tourneys tourniquet tourniquet poditis tourniquet test tourniquets tourns tournure

Literary usage of Tournament

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1900)
"What's a tournament ?" says when she knew what a tournament was, I think, ... We are not at liberty to say more; but a tournament, at which His Ex-l-ncy Brn ..."

2. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"What do you think 1 we're going to have a tournament! " " What's a tournament t" says Tug, and so said his mamma when she heard the news ; and when she knew ..."

3. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1889)
"CHAPTER IX THE tournament THEY were always having grand tournaments there at Camelot; and very stirring and picturesque and ridiculous human bull-fights ..."

4. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, William Caxton (1903)
"CHAPTER L How by treason Sir Tristram was brought to a tournament for to have ... There was cried by the coasts of Cornwall a great tournament and jousts, ..."

5. The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet: Containing an Account of the by Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Bon-Joseph Dacier (1840)
"A GRAND tournament IN THE CITY OF BRUSSELS. AT this period the duke of Burgundy set out, grandly accompanied by the nobles of his country, for Brussels, ..."

6. Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott (1900)
"THE FIRST DAY AT THE tournament 1. The "contagious disorder," to which reference is made on ... THE SECOND DAY OF THE tournament 1. Criticise, with reasons ..."

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