tournament
745
1.8
- noun
- /ˈtʊrnəmənt/
:
torneo
- You gotta buck up, man, you can't go into the tournament with this negative attitude.
- championship tournament
- golf tournament
- soccer tournament
We played tennis together in a Double S tournament one time.
- We played tennis together in a Double S tournament one time.
- I can't like I don't I've been to League tournaments in in in Korea.
- I I never won a major tournament as a wrestler.
- I competed in my first jiu jitsu tournament weekend ago.
- And I got alerted to a private tournament that was happening.
- I made it to the national tournament and then which was my goal.
- And so, yeah, they would set up those tournaments and I would always win for Tekken.
- I boxed and I had tournaments, you know, everywhere.
- Christ, we get through one tournament without a tech issue.
Examples
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The overall winner in a recent freestyle tournament had neither the best human players nor the most powerful computers.
Academic text (2012) -
Have you ever been to a tennis tournament?
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How did the tournament go?
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I played in a pool tournament in my ward.
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This is the first game of the tournament.
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Let the tournament begin!
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The local basketball tournament will determine which team gets to play in the state finals.
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After weeks of practice, her team finally won first place in the annual soccer tournament.
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Every summer, they hold a chess tournament at the community center for players of all ages.
Synonyms
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2.5
A competition to find the best team or player in a sport
396
2.3
An event where people or teams compete to win
393
2.3
Several games played in a row between the same teams to decide a winner
347
2.8
Games between top teams to decide the champion
12
6.2
A sports competition where players or teams compete to win
3
2.7
A contest where athletes compete in sports such as running or jumping
2
4.0
A competition where each team or player plays every other
1
2.5
A competition where people or teams compete in sports
1
4.5
A competition where losers leave after each round until one winner remains
A day when people or teams compete in different sports
Compounds
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4.5
A competition where losers leave after each round until one winner remains
How Big
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2.5
745
1.8
- Jargon
1
9.9
396
2.3
517
1.4
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
tournament = tourn + ment
Although the surface contains the familiar suffix '-ment', the base 'tourn' is not a standalone English word and the formation is historically borrowed via Old French, so the meaning is not transparently derived for average learners.
Etymology
Tournament comes from an old French word torneiement, from torner meaning 'to turn', like the English word turn. So a tournament was made of many 'turns' or rounds, which is why today it means a series of games or matches to find the overall winner.