tournament

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtʊənəmənt/, /ˈtɔːnəmənt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈtʊɹnəmənt/, /ˈtɝnəmənt/, /ˈtɔɹnəmənt/
Hyphenation: tour‧na‧ment

Noun

tournament (plural tournaments)

(historical) During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war.
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.
- 2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England‎:
  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.
(graph theory) A digraph obtained by assigning a direction to each edge in an undirected complete graph.

Synonyms

(Middle Ages, contests, games, battles): tourney
(contests, sports, games): tourney

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Japanese: トーナメント (tōnamento)

Translations

(historical) series of battles

Armenian: տուրնիր (hy) (turnir)
Azerbaijani: turnir (az)
Belarusian: турні́р m (turnír)
Bulgarian: турни́р (bg) m (turnír)
Catalan: torneig (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 騎士比武／骑士比武 (qíshì bǐwǔ)
Czech: turnaj (cs) m
Danish: turnering c
Esperanto: turniro
Estonian: turniir
French: tournoi (fr) m
Galician: torneo m
Georgian: ტურნირი (ṭurniri)
German: Turnier (de) n
Greek: τουρνουά (el) n (tournouá)
Hungarian: lovagi torna (hu), torna (hu)
Italian: torneo (it) m, giostra (it) f
Japanese: 馬上槍試合 (ばじょうやりじあい, bajō yari jiai)
Latvian: turnīrs m
Lithuanian: turnyras m
Macedonian: турнир m (turnir)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: turnering m or f

Nynorsk: turnering f
Polish: turniej (pl) m
Romanian: turnir (ro) n
Russian: турни́р (ru) m (turnír)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ту̀рнӣр m

Roman: tùrnīr (sh) m
Slovak: turnaj m
Slovene: turnir (sl) m
Spanish: torneo (es) m, justa (es) f
Swedish: tornerspel (sv) n, tornering (sv) c
Turkish: turnuva (tr)
Ukrainian: турні́р m (turnír)
Uzbek: turnir (uz)

series of games

Belarusian: турні́р m (turnír), спабо́рніцтва n (spabórnictva)
Bulgarian: турни́р (bg) m (turnír)
Catalan: torneig (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 錦標賽／锦标赛 (zh) (jǐnbiāosài)
Czech: turnaj (cs) m
Dutch: toernooi (nl) n, (Flemish) tornooi (nl) n
Esperanto: turniro
Estonian: turniir
Finnish: turnaus (fi), turnajaiset (fi)
French: tournoi (fr) m
Galician: torneo m
German: Turnier (de) n
Greek: πρωτάθλημα (el) n (protáthlima)
Hebrew: טוּרְנִיר m (turnír)
Hungarian: torna (hu)
Italian: torneo (it) m, gara (it) f
Japanese: トーナメント (ja) (tōnamento), 大会 (ja) (たいかい, taikai)
Korean: 경기대회(競技大會) (ko) (gyeonggidaehoe), 토너먼트 (toneomeonteu)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: دەوری (dewrî)
Latvian: turnīrs m
Lithuanian: turnyras m
Manx: yl-chloie m
Maori: tātāwhāinga
Norwegian:
Bokmål: turnering m or f

Nynorsk: turnering f
Persian: تورنمنت (fa) (tornoment)
Polish: turniej (pl) m
Portuguese: torneio (pt) m
Russian: турни́р (ru) m (turnír), состяза́ние (ru) n (sostjazánije)
Spanish: torneo (es) m, campeonato (es) m
Swedish: turnering (sv) c
Turkish: turnuva (tr)
Ukrainian: турні́р m (turnír), змага́ння n (zmahánnja), змага́ння n (zmahánnja)

(graph theory)

Italian: torneo (it) m

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