tournament

«tournament» in Mova's school dictionary: a competition with many games or matches, where players… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (tournament, tournaments)

meaning for a pupil

1) A tournament is a competition with many games or matches, where players or teams try to win. tree →

2) In history, a tournament was a contest where knights fought on horseback for sport. tree →

sense 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 →
• Each team plays every other team once. tree →
• She scored 12 points in the tournament. tree →
• The tournament lasts 5 days with 4 games a day. tree →
• Our school won the netball tournament. tree →
• In a knock-out tournament, the losing team goes home. tree →
• Knights rode at the tournament to win the king's prize. tree →
• The chess tournament had players from ten schools. tree →
• The Princess went with her sisters to the window and looked on at the tournament. tree →

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».

In the corpora

• Punishments for fighting often take away the things a child loves most, like a tournament or a play.
• At the chess tournament Dev from another school beats Sam on time in the final.
• At tournaments knights jousted, charging at each other on horseback with blunted lances in front of cheering crowds.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «tournament» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.