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TOURNAMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner
Synonyms:
tournament; tourney
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("tournament" is a kind of...):
competition; contest (an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tournament"):
World Cup (a soccer tournament held every four years between national soccer teams to determine a world champion)
elimination tournament (a tournament in which losers are eliminated in successive rounds)
open (a tournament in which both professionals and amateurs may play)
round robin (a tournament in which every contestant plays every other contestant)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A series of jousts between knights contesting for a prize
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("tournament" is a kind of...):
competition; contest (an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants)
Meronyms (parts of "tournament"):
joust; tilt (a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances)
