tournament

Meaning

Noun

• During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war.
• 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.
• A digraph obtained by assigning a direction to each edge in an undirected complete graph.

Related

Similar words

• tourney

Origin

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