Associations to the word «Tournament»

Wiktionary

TOURNAMENT, noun. (historical) During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war.
TOURNAMENT, noun. 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.
TOURNAMENT, noun. (graph theory) A digraph obtained by assigning a direction to each edge in an undirected complete graph.

Dictionary definition

TOURNAMENT, noun. A sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner.
TOURNAMENT, noun. A series of jousts between knights contesting for a prize.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope