tournament

noun
/ˈtʊənəmənt/UK/ˈtʊɹnəmənt/US

Etymology

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

Definitions

  1. During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare…

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

  2. A series of games

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for tournament. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA