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Vinony

tournament

noun

  1. sports competition involving a relatively large number of competitors
  2. chivalrous competition or mock fight of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈtʊənəmənt/ / /ˈtɔːnəmənt/ / /ˈtʊɹnəmənt/

noun

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

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

    “England secured their place at Euro 2012 with a scrambled draw in Montenegro - but Wayne Rooney was sent off and will miss the start of the tournament.”

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