tournament

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.

Descendants

• → Japanese: トーナメント (tōnamento)

Translations

(historical) series of battles

• Catalan: torneig (ca) m
• Danish: turnering c
• French: tournoi (fr) m
• Galician: torneo m
• German: Turnier (de)
• Hungarian: lovagi torna (hu), torna (hu)
• Italian: torneo (it) m, giostra (it) f
• Japanese: 馬上槍試合 (bajō yari jiai)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: turnering m or f

  Nynorsk: turnering f

• Russian: турни́р (ru) m (turnír)
• Spanish: torneo (es) m, justa (es) f
• Swedish: tornerspel n

series of games

• Catalan: torneig (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 比賽 (zh), 比赛 (zh) (bǐsài)

• Czech: turnaj m
• Dutch: toernooi (nl) n, (Flemish) tornooi (nl) n
• Esperanto: turniro
• Finnish: turnaus (fi), turnajaiset (fi)
• French: tournoi (fr) m
• Galician: torneo m
• German: Turnier (de) n
• Greek: πρωτάθλημα (el) n (protáthlima)
• Hebrew: טוּרְנִיר‎ m (turnír)
• Hungarian: torna (hu)
• Italian: torneo (it) m, gara (it) f
• Japanese: トーナメント (tōnamento), 大会 (ja) (たいかい, taikai)

• Korean: 경기 대회 (gyeonggi daehoe), 토너먼트 (toneomeonteu)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: دەوری‎ (ku) (dewrî)

• Manx: yl-chloie m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: turnering m or f

  Nynorsk: turnering f

• Persian: تورنمنت‎ (fa) (tornement)
• Polish: turniej (pl) m
• Portuguese: torneio (pt) m
• Russian: турни́р (ru) m (turnír), состяза́ние (ru) n (sostjazánije)
• Spanish: torneo (es) m, campeonato (es) m
• Swedish: turnering (sv) c
• Turkish: turnuva (tr)

(graph theory)

• Italian: torneo (it) m