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tournament

  • noun
  • tour·na·ment
  • /ˈtʊənəmənt/

During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war.

Other meanings

  1. 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.

  2. A digraph obtained by assigning a direction to each edge in an undirected complete graph.

Related words

  • donkament
  • nontournament
  • pretournament
  • subtournament
  • hat tournament
  • pre-tournament
  • single-elimination tournament

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “tournament” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.