Meanings
plural tournaments
- historicalDuring the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war.
Synonyms: tourney
- 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.
2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England - graph theoryA digraph obtained by assigning a direction to each edge in an undirected complete graph.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounDuring the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Old Frenchtornoiement
- Englishtournament
From Old French tornoiement (Modern French tournoiement) from the verb tornoier.
More words from Old French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian турни́р, турни́р
- турни́р (turnír)(historical) series of battles
- турни́р (turnír)series of games
Catalan torneig, torneig
- torneig(historical) series of battles
- torneigseries of games
Chinese Mandarin 騎士比武 /骑士比武, 錦標賽 /锦标赛
- 騎士比武 /骑士比武 (qíshì bǐwǔ)(historical) series of battles
- 錦標賽 /锦标赛 (jǐnbiāosài)series of games
Czech turnaj, turnaj
- turnaj(historical) series of battles
- turnajseries of games
Danish turnering
- turnering(historical) series of battles
Dutch toernooi, tornooi
- toernooiseries of games
- tornooiseries of games
Esperanto turniro, turniro
- turniro(historical) series of battles
- turniroseries of games
Estonian turniir, turniir
- turniir(historical) series of battles
- turniirseries of games
Finnish turnajaiset, turnaus
- turnajaiset(historical) series of battles
- turnausseries of games
- turnajaisetseries of games
French tournoi, tournoi
- tournoi(historical) series of battles
- tournoiseries of games
German Turnier, Turnier
- Turnier(historical) series of battles
- Turnierseries of games
- Digraph(graph theory)
Greek τουρνουά, πρωτάθλημα
- τουρνουά (tournouá)(historical) series of battles
- πρωτάθλημα (protáthlima)series of games
Hebrew טוּרְנִיר
- טוּרְנִיר (turnír)series of games
Hungarian lovagi torna, torna
- lovagi torna(historical) series of battles
- torna(historical) series of battles
- tornaseries of games
Italian torneo, giostra
- torneo(historical) series of battles
- giostra(historical) series of battles
- torneoseries of games
- garaseries of games
- torneo(graph theory)
Japanese 馬上槍試合, トーナメント
- 馬上槍試合 (bajō yari jiai)(historical) series of battles
- トーナメント (tōnamento)series of games
- 大会 (taikai)series of games
Korean 경기대회, 토너먼트
- 경기대회 (gyeonggidaehoe)series of games
- 토너먼트 (toneomeonteu)series of games
Latvian turnīrs, turnīrs
- turnīrs(historical) series of battles
- turnīrsseries of games
Lithuanian turnyras, turnyras
- turnyras(historical) series of battles
- turnyrasseries of games
Māori tātāwhāinga
- tātāwhāingaseries of games
Norwegian Bokmål turnering, turnering
- turnering(historical) series of battles
- turneringseries of games
Persian تورنمنت
- تورنمنت (tornoment)series of games
Polish turniej, turniej
- turniej(historical) series of battles
- turniejseries of games
Portuguese torneio
- torneioseries of games
Romanian turnir
- turnir(historical) series of battles
Russian турни́р, турни́р
- турни́р (turnír)(historical) series of battles
- турни́р (turnír)series of games
- состяза́ние (sostjazánije)series of games
Slovak turnaj
- turnaj(historical) series of battles
Spanish torneo, justa
- torneo(historical) series of battles
- justa(historical) series of battles
- torneoseries of games
- campeonatoseries of games
Swedish tornerspel, tornering
- tornerspel(historical) series of battles
- tornering(historical) series of battles
- turneringseries of games
Turkish turnuva, turnuva
- turnuva(historical) series of battles
- turnuvaseries of games
Ukrainian турні́р, турні́р
- турні́р (turnír)(historical) series of battles
- турні́р (turnír)series of games
- змага́ння (zmahánnja)series of games
Cite this entry
tournament. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tournament
“tournament.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tournament. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tournament,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tournament.
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