tourney
Use Tourney in a sentence
ni, ˈtɜr- noun
1.
a tournament.
verb (used without object)
2.
to contend or engage in a tournament.
Origin:
1300–50; (v.) Middle English tourneyen < Old French torneier < Vulgar Latin *tornidiāre to wheel, keep turning; (noun) Middle English tourneie < Old French tournei, derivative of tourneier. See turn
1300–50; (v.) Middle English tourneyen < Old French torneier < Vulgar Latin *tornidiāre to wheel, keep turning; (noun) Middle English tourneie < Old French tournei, derivative of tourneier. See turn
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| —n | |
| 1. | a knightly tournament |
| —vb | |
| 2. | (intr) to engage in a tourney |
| [C13: from Old French torneier, from Vulgar Latin tornidiāre (unattested) to turn constantly, from Latin tornāre to | |
| 'tourneyer | |
| —n | |
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Tourney
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
tourney
c.1300, from O.Fr. tornei (c.1150), from torneier "to joust, tilt," lit. "turn around," from V.L. *tornizare, from L. tornare "to turn" (see turn). The noun also is attested from c.1300.
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Example sentences
Both squads ended the tourney by drubbing the sea services.
He went privately and armed himself, and came into the tourney in undistinguished armor.
Illnesses reported among attendees, participants of state cheerleading tourney.
We're going to use them in an interdepartmental tourney.
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