Tournament Definition

to͝ornə-mənt, tûr-
tournaments
noun
tournaments
In the Middle Ages,
Webster's New World
A series of contests in some sport or game, as basketball or chess, in which a number of people or teams take part, trying to win the championship.
Webster's New World
A medieval martial sport in which two groups of mounted and armored combatants fought against each other with blunted lances or swords.
American Heritage

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

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Noun

Singular:
tournament
Plural:
tournaments

Origin of Tournament

  • Middle English tournement a medieval sport from Old French torneiement from torneier to tourney tourney

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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

    From Wiktionary

Tournament Sentence Examples

  • You'll come to the costume tournament, Countess?

  • The scene of the "sparrow-hawk" tournament, described in Geraint and Enid, one of the Arthurian romances, is laid at Cardiff.

  • The town hall (Rathaus), an edifice in the Italian style, erected in 1616-1619, contains frescoes by Dürer, and a curious stucco relief of a tournament held at Nuremberg in 1446.

  • Chretien de Troyes, in his Cligds (the date of which falls somewhere in the decade 1160-1170), knew and utilized the story of the "Three Days' Tournament," and moreover makes Lancelot take part in it.

  • These proceedings aroused the anger and jealousy of the barons, and their wrath was diminished neither by Gaveston's superior skill at the tournament, nor by his haughty and arrogant behaviour to themselves.

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