Meaning

3 senses
  1. (historical)During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war.

    Turnier

    турни́рturnír

    турні́рturnír

  2. 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.

    Turnier

    турни́рturnír, состяза́ниеsostjazánije

    турні́рturnír, змага́нняzmahánnja

  3. A digraph obtained by assigning a direction to each edge in an undirected complete graph.

    Digraph

More definitions
  • a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner
  • a series of jousts between knights contesting for a prize

Examples

115 sentences
  1. We have a soccer tournament in May.

    У травні у нас футбольний турнір.

    ruВ мае у нас турнир по футболу.

    deWir haben im Mai ein Fußballturnier.

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  2. Who do you think will win the tournament?

    Хто, на твою думку, виграє турнір?

    deWas glaubst du, wer wird das Turnier gewinnen?

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  3. He won the first prize at the chess tournament.

    Він виграв головний приз на шаховому турнірі.

    ruОн занял первое место на этом шахматном турнире.

    deEr hat den ersten Preis beim Schachturnier gewonnen.

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  4. Tom dropped out of the tournament.

    ruТом выбыл из турнира.

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  5. Did you hear about the tournament?

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
(historical) series of battles:
series of games:
Русский
By meaning 2
(historical) series of battles:
series of games:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
(historical) series of battles:
(graph theory):

Origin

From Old French tornoiement (Modern French tournoiement) from the verb tornoier.

From Old French tornoiement (Modern French tournoiement) from the verb tornoier.

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Forms

plural: tournaments
Singulartournament
Pluraltournaments

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
contests:tourney
Close in meaning
  • a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner:tourney

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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