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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TOURNAMENT, n. turn'ament. A martial sport or exercise formerly performed by cavaliers to show their address and bravery. These exercises were performed on horseback, and were accompanied with tilting, or attacks with blunted lances and swords.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner [syn: tournament, tourney]
2: a series of jousts between knights contesting for a prize

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English tornement, from Anglo-French turneiement, from turneier Date: 13th century 1. a. a knightly sport of the Middle Ages between mounted combatants armed with blunted lances or swords and divided into two parties contesting for a prize or favor bestowed by the lady of the tournament b. the whole series of knightly sports, jousts, and tilts occurring at one time and place 2. a series of games or contests that make up a single unit of competition (as on a professional golf tour), the championship play-offs of a league or conference, or an invitational event

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 any contest of skill between a number of competitors, esp. played in heats (chess tournament; tennis tournament). 2 a display of military exercises etc. (Royal Tournament). 3 hist. a a pageant in which jousting with blunted weapons took place. b a meeting for jousting between single knights for a prize etc. Etymology: ME f. OF torneiement f. torneier TOURNEY

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tournament Tour"na*ment, n. [OE. turnement, tornement, OF. torneiement, tornoiement, F. tournoiement a turning or wheeling round. See Tourney.] 1. A mock fight, or warlike game, formerly in great favor, in which a number of combatants were engaged, as an exhibition of their address and bravery; hence, figuratively, a real battle. ``In battle and in tourneyment.'' --Chaucer. With cruel tournament the squadrons join. --Milton. Note: It different from the joust, which was a trial of skill between one man and another. 2. Any contest of skill in which there are many contestents for championship; as, a chess tournament.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(tournaments) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. A tournament is a sports competition in which players who win a match continue to play further matches in the competition until just one person or team is left. N-COUNT: oft supp N

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Tourney.

Moby Thesaurus

Highland games, Olympiad, Olympic games, Olympics, bout, carousel, competition, concours, contest, derby, encounter, engagement, event, field day, fight, game, games, go, gymkhana, joust, match, matching, meet, meeting, rally, regatta, rencontre, test, the Olympics, tilt, tourney, track meet, trial