TOURNEY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner

Synonyms:

tournament; tourney

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("tourney" is a kind of...):

competition; contest (an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tourney"):

World Cup (a soccer tournament held every four years between national soccer teams to determine a world champion)

elimination tournament (a tournament in which losers are eliminated in successive rounds)

open (a tournament in which both professionals and amateurs may play)

round robin (a tournament in which every contestant plays every other contestant)

Derivation:

tourney (engage in a tourney)

Meaning:

Engage in a tourney

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "tourney" is one way to...):

contend; fight; struggle (be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

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