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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tournament/#m1)

2) In history, a tournament was a contest where knights fought on horseback for sport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tournament/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tournament/#x1)
- Each team plays every other team once. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tournament/#x2)
- She scored 12 points in the tournament. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tournament/#x3)
- The tournament lasts 5 days with 4 games a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tournament/#x4)
- Our school won the netball tournament. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tournament/#x5)
- In a knock-out tournament, the losing team goes home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tournament/#x6)
- Knights rode at the tournament to win the king's prize. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tournament/#x7)
- The chess tournament had players from ten schools. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tournament/#x8)
- The Princess went with her sisters to the window and looked on at the tournament. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tournament/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/375-what-fights-cost-at-school/21/)
- [At the chess tournament Dev from another school beats Sam on time in the final.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/11/)
- [At tournaments knights jousted, charging at each other on horseback with blunted lances in front of cheering crowds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tournament» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tournament/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.