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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats