tournament
noun
Simple meaning
A sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner.
Pronunciation
Say it like this:
tuurnuhmuhntSay the bold part a little louder.
IPA pronunciation (US)
ˈtʊɹnəmənt
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) is a standard way of writing speech sounds.
Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
noun
A sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner
A series of jousts between knights contesting for a prize
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.
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: A sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner
Used this way, tournament is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
More ways to use tournament
- “Our school team won the basketball tournament this year.”noun
Share your sentence
Use This Word
See how this word sounds in a real sentence.
Ask Vocabaura
Understand the word your way.
What Does It Mean Here?
Words can change meaning depending on context.
Use it yourself
Knowing “tournament” starts when you use it. Pick a next step, all free.
Dictionary data from Wiktionary via the Free Dictionary API. Simple meanings, combinations and word intelligence are built from verified reference data, no AI is used to load this page.