tournaments
- 1Plural of tournament.
Several regional tournaments determine which teams advance to the national final.
She qualified for three tournaments after her winning streak last spring.
Note
A regular -s plural that carries every meaning of its singular. Historians use it for the medieval contests that prepared knights for war. Players and fans use it for competitions that narrow a field to a single winning team or individual. Graph theorists use it for directed graphs made by giving each edge of a complete graph a direction. Context, not form, tells them apart.
tournaments is a form of tournament
tournament, noun: A series of games (either one game repeated or different games on a theme) played competitively to decide a single winning team or person. Full entry
- Forms
- tournamenttournaments plural
- Spelling
- tournament → tournaments: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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