# tournament

Pronunciation: say "TUUR-nuh-muhnt" US /ˈtʊɹnəmənt/, UK /ˈtʊənəmənt/

## Noun

1. A series of games (either one game repeated or different games on a theme) played competitively to decide a single winning team or person.
   - Simple: A set of games or matches where players or teams compete to find one winner.
   - _The tennis tournament drew players from a dozen countries this year._
   - _Our local club runs a tournament every summer to crown a champion._
2. In the Middle Ages, a series of staged battles and other contests held to train and test knights for war.
   - Simple: Long ago, a set of fights and contests where knights practiced their battle skills.
   - _The young squire watched the tournament, dreaming of the day he would ride in it._
   - _Lords gathered at the castle for a tournament before the spring campaign._

## Other meanings

- (noun) A directed graph formed by giving each edge of a complete graph a direction, so every pair of vertices is joined by exactly one arrow.

## Origin

The verb "tornoier" gave Old French its noun "tornoiement" (Modern French "tournoiement"), the source of the English word.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/tournament (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).