TOURNAMENT
\tˈʊ͡ənəmənt], \tˈʊənəmənt], \t_ˈʊə_n_ə_m_ə_n_t]\
Sort: Oldest first
-
A mock fight, or warlike game, formerly in great favor, in which a number of combatants were engaged, as an exhibition of their address and bravery; hence, figuratively, a real battle.
-
Any contest of skill in which there are many contestents for championship; as, a chess tournament.
By Oddity Software
-
A mock fight, or warlike game, formerly in great favor, in which a number of combatants were engaged, as an exhibition of their address and bravery; hence, figuratively, a real battle.
-
Any contest of skill in which there are many contestents for championship; as, a chess tournament.
By Noah Webster.
-
In the Middle Ages, a contest, or series of contests, with blunt lances and swords, by knights on horseback; a trial of skill in sports; as, a golf tournament. Also, tourney.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
Word of the day
basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).