tournament
- 01 B1 Intermediate
a series of games or matches where players or teams compete to find a winner.
a series of contests in which a number of players or teams take part, typically resulting in a single champion.
Simple“Our local school won the regional basketball tournament last weekend.”
In context“The grandmaster secured his victory in the international chess tournament after a grueling final round that lasted over five hours.”
Synonyms - 02 C1 Advanced
a historical event where knights fought each other to practice for war.
a medieval sporting event consisting of a series of chivalric competitions, such as jousting, intended as military training.
Simple“The king invited the bravest knights to compete in a grand tournament.”
In context“Historical records describe the 14th-century tournament as a lavish display of pageantry where knights demonstrated their prowess before the royal court.”
Synonymsjoust - 03 C2 Proficiency
a special kind of diagram in math where every point is connected to every other point by a line with an arrow.
a directed graph formed by orienting each edge of a complete undirected graph.
Simple“In our math class, we learned how to draw a tournament with four points.”
In context“The researcher utilized tournament graphs to model the possible outcomes of round-robin competitions where no ties are permitted.”
“Slowed by injury, Yamal converted only once during the World Cup, but seemed to be improving as the tournament progressed.”
“The four semifinalists – Cameroon, Malawi, Morocco and Algeria – have all qualified directly for next year’s tournament in Brazil.”
From Old French tornoiement (Modern French tournoiement) from the verb tornoier.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.