tournament

Meaning

1. During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war.
2. 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.
3. A digraph obtained by assigning a direction to each edge in an undirected complete graph.

Hyphenated as

tour‧na‧ment

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtʊənəmənt/

Etymology

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