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# tournament

noun (tournament, tournaments)

«tournament» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A tournament is a competition with many games or matches, where players or teams try to win. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tournament/#m1)
2. In history, a tournament was a contest where knights fought on horseback for sport. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tournament/#m2)

### In the lessons

a set of games; problems count games played, points scored, teams or wins and losses; in sport and school: football, tennis or chess tournaments, a league or a knock-out; in history: knights jousting at tournaments; phrases: «win the tournament», «knock-out tournament», «round-robin tournament»

### Examples

- There are 8 teams in the tournament. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tournament/#x1)
- Each team plays every other team once. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tournament/#x2)
- She scored 12 points in the tournament. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tournament/#x3)
- The tournament lasts 5 days with 4 games a day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tournament/#x4)
- Our school won the netball tournament. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tournament/#x5)
- In a knock-out tournament, the losing team goes home. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tournament/#x6)
- Knights rode at the tournament to win the king's prize. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tournament/#x7)
- The chess tournament had players from ten schools. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tournament/#x8)
- The Princess went with her sisters to the window and looked on at the tournament. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tournament/#x9)

### Note

Often counts games: if every team plays every other once, games = n × (n − 1) ÷ 2. Trap: a knock-out tournament of 8 teams has 7 games, not 8 (each game knocks out one team). Pronounced «TOR-na-ment» or «TUR-na-ment».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «tournament» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tournament/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«tournament» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/tournament.html) on Mova free.