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tournament

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A tournament is a competition involving a relatively large number of competitors, all participating in a sport or game . More specifically, the term may be used in either of two overlapping senses: One or more competitions held at a single venue and concentrated ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tournament \Tour"na*ment\, n. [OE. turnement, tornement, OF. torneiement, tornoiement, F. tournoiement a turning or wheeling round. See Tourney .] A mock fight, or warlike game, formerly in great favor, in which a number of combatants were engaged, as an ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"medieval martial arts contest," c.1200 (figurative), c.1300 (literal), from Old French tornement "contest between groups of knights on horseback" (12c.), from tornoier "to joust, tilt, take part in tournaments" (see tourney ). Modern use, in reference ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context historical English) During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war. 2 A series of games; either the same game played many times, or a succession of games related by a single theme; played ...

Usage examples of tournament.

Each night during the tournament, there are cocktail parties with over 250 people attending, mariachi and island music, etc.

Labyrinth while waiting for Prankipin to die: the Pontifical Games, they had called them, the grandest tournament of modern times.

After two or three days on the boats, the most generous consensus I could get from the pros was that even the best angler is worth about a ten percent advantage in a tournament, and that most are seen as handicaps.

It is difficult in English, with its relatively meager stock of rhymes and its weight of consonants, to render completely the disarming grace of this reproach to fair-weather friends, the suave cadence, the delicate strophic scheme that embodies his appeal to the countess and, through her, to his familiars in hall, in tournament and war.

In the very last couple years of solar, Unsubsidized Time, this kid Eric Clipperton appeared for the first time as an unseeded sixteen-year-old in East Coast regional tournament play.

Then an appellate court ruled that the tournament violates the deed, as written by the Matheson family when it donated the unspoiled property half a century ago.

Dora Bowditch disappeared on the way to a golf tournament, Matthew Bowditch is looking to buy a retirement home in a golfing community, their old Korean gardener plays golf in Pennsylvania.

I meant, Anything that might suggest a link to the chops, or to someone at the tournament.

Opens, and has lost to exactly nobody American in seven meets and a dozen major tournaments.

Andross, and he gave Milla a series of orders as they left the tournament hall.

Forty grand is peanuts compared to the millions spent to subsidize auto races, tennis tournaments and Super Bowls.

In starting at usually the quarterfinal rounds of serious tournaments there are ballboys to retrieve them.

I graduated from the only college that won the NIT and NCAA basketball tournaments in the same year but more importantly than that a Jonas Salk graduated from that same NYC school and tried to rid the world of polio and ironically another person graduated from there too - the Secretary of State - who has forgotten his proud roots and chose to begin his march toward the scent of more money.

Now he was working on sandan, the third degree, and already had five tournament points, though it would be a year-and-a-half before he could qualify officially.

Nevertheless Axelrod worked out that, if only somebody had submitted Tit for Two Tats, it would have won the tournament.