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tour⋅na⋅ment

  [toor-nuh-muhnt, tur-]
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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.
Origin:
1175–1225; ME tornement < OF torneiement, equiv. to torne(ier) to tourney + -ment -ment
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tour·na·ment   (tŏŏr'nə-mənt, tûr'-)   
n.  

  1. A series of contests in which a number of contestants compete and the one that prevails through the final round or that finishes with the best record is declared the winner.

  2. A medieval martial sport in which two groups of mounted and armored combatants fought against each other with blunted lances or swords.


[Middle English tournement, a medieval sport, from Old French torneiement, from torneier, to tourney; see tourney.]
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Word Origin & History

tournament 
1297, "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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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