TOURNEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tourney mean? 

• TOURNEY (noun)
  The noun TOURNEY has 1 sense:

1. a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner

  Familiarity information: TOURNEY used as a noun is very rare.

• TOURNEY (verb)
  The verb TOURNEY has 1 sense:

1. engage in a tourney

  Familiarity information: TOURNEY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOURNEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

tournament; tourney

Hypernyms ("tourney" is a kind of...):

competition; contest (an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tourney"):

World Cup (a soccer tournament held every four years between national soccer teams to determine a world champion)

elimination tournament (a tournament in which losers are eliminated in successive rounds)

open (a tournament in which both professionals and amateurs may play)

round robin (a tournament in which every contestant plays every other contestant)

Derivation:

tourney (engage in a tourney)

• TOURNEY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Engage in a tourney

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "tourney" is one way to...):

contend; fight; struggle (be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

tourney (a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner)

 Context examples 

That we are to have a brave tourney.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To many in those ancient days the tourney may have seemed a bloody and brutal ordeal, but we who look at it with ample perspective see that it was a rude but gallant preparation for the conditions of life in an iron age.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I fear that they will have little to shout over this tourney, for my gold vase has small prospect of crossing the water.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had a turn with them upon the sea when they came over to Winchelsea and the good queen with her ladies sat upon the cliffs looking down at us, as if it had been joust or tourney.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A tourney?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The vanguard halted a long bow shot from the hill, and with waving spears and vaunting shouts challenged their enemies to come forth, while two cavaliers, pricking forward from the glittering ranks, walked their horses slowly between the two arrays with targets braced and lances in rest like the challengers in a tourney.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Some day, perchance, in joust or in tourney, knight may wish to wear my colors, and then I shall tell him that if he does indeed crave my favor there is wrong unredressed, and the wronger the Socman of Minstead.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)