ELIMINATION TOURNAMENT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A tournament in which losers are eliminated in successive rounds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("elimination tournament" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "elimination tournament"):

final (the final match between the winners of all previous matches in an elimination tournament)

quarterfinal (one of the four competitions in an elimination tournament whose winners go on to play in the semifinals)

semi; semifinal (one of the two competitions in the next to the last round of an elimination tournament)