tournament

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtʊənəmənt/, /ˈtɔːnəmənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtʊɹnəmənt/, /ˈtɝnəmənt/, /ˈtɔɹnəmənt/
• Hyphenation: tour‧na‧ment

tournament (plural tournaments)

1. (historical) During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war.
2. 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.
   • 2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England‎^[1]:

     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.

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

• (Middle Ages, contests, games, battles): tourney
• (contests, sports, games): tourney

• → Japanese: トーナメント (tōnamento)
• → Korean: 토너먼트 (toneomeonteu)