tournament

== English == === Etymology === From 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) (historical) During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war. 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. (graph theory) A digraph obtained by assigning a direction to each edge in an undirected complete graph. ==== Synonyms ==== (Middle Ages, contests, games, battles): tourney (contests, sports, games): tourney ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Japanese: トーナメント (tōnamento) → Korean: 토너먼트 (toneomeonteu) ==== Translations ====