tournament

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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.

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner

3. 3
   noun

   a series of jousts between knights contesting for a prize

4. 4
   noun

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

5. 5
   noun

   A digraph obtained by assigning a direction to each edge in an undirected complete graph.

Etymology

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