Meaning of TOURNEY
| Pronunciation: | | 'tûrnee
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- [n] a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner
- [v] engage in a tourney
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| | See Also: | | competition, contest, elimination tournament, fight, open, round robin, struggle | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Tour"ney\, n. [OF. tornei, tornoi, F. tournoi, fr. OF.
torneier, tornoier, tournoier, to tit, to tourney, F.
tournoyer to turn round and round. See {Turn}, v. t.]
A tournament. --Bacon.
At tilt or tourney or like warlike game. --Spenser.
We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, And there is
scantly time for half the work. --Tennyson.
\Tour"ney\, v. i. [Cf.OF. torneier. See {Tourney}, n. ]
To perform in tournaments; to tilt.
Well could he tourney, and in lists debate. --Spenser.
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