tournament

IPA: tˈʊrnʌmʌnt

(historical) 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.
(graph theory) A digraph obtained by assigning a direction to each edge in an undirected complete graph.

Examples of "tournament" in Sentences

Is this the first golf tournament of the season
Hawks squeak out a win in tournament consolation game.
The tournament was marred by controversy before the Games began.
The picture is of the Olympic hockey tournament at the 1998 Games.
The 2005 tournament was also the last to feature a consolation game.
The highlight of the convention is a tournament played by the attendees.
The championship hung in the balance until the final game of the tournament.
The winner of the tournament received an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
The sport shot tournament features six games of qualifying with the top five advancing to a stepladder finals.
Golf tournaments began to look a lot like father son events, with paunchy middle aged veterans competing against tall, muscular rookies.