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noun
1.
a trial of skill in some game, in which competitors play a series of contests: a chess tournament.
2.
a meeting for contests in a variety of sports, as between teams of different nations.
3.
History/Historical.
a.
a contest or martial sport in which two opposing parties of mounted and armored combatants fought for a prize, with blunted weapons and in accordance with certain rules.
b.
a meeting at an appointed time and place for the performance of knightly exercises and sports.
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Tournament
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
Example Sentences
- Academia is a tournament system, the average reward is poor, and many loose.
- Tournament hoops time, combined with one week of break.
- About three weeks before each big tournament he would enter a bubble of concentration that muffled even the crowd's applause.
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Word Origin & History
tournament
c.1300, "medieval martial arts contest," from O.Fr. torneiement "contest between groups of knights on horseback" (c.1150), from torneier "to joust, tilt" (see tourney). Modern use, in ref. to games of skill, is recorded from 1761.
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