Associations to the word «Semifinal»

Wiktionary

SEMIFINAL, noun. (sports) A playoff in the round with only four players or teams left, the stage before the final.
SEMIFINAL, noun. (General) A competition that narrows a field of contestants (semifinalists) to a set of finalists, for a subsequent final.

Dictionary definition

SEMIFINAL, noun. One of the two competitions in the next to the last round of an elimination tournament.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne