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, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley