tourney
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++tour·ney /ˈtʊəni, ˈtɔː- $ ˈtɜːr-, ˈtɔːr-/ noun [countable] American English informal a tournament 锦标赛
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tourney• Seventy-five percent of the teams in the tourney are done for the year, but the ostensibly underachieving Cats are still alive.• Wright flew back to cover the final round of the tourney.• Their journey to the tourney, as Cameron Dollar calls it, is finally over.Origin tourney (1200-1300) tourney “to take part in a tournament” ((13-20 centuries)), from Old French torneier, from tourn; → TOUR1tour·ney nounChineseSyllable
Corpus a tournament
tourney
tour‧ney /ˈtʊəni, ˈtɔː- $ ˈtɜːr-, ˈtɔːr-/
noun [countable] American English informal
tour‧ney /ˈtʊəni, ˈtɔː- $ ˈtɜːr-, ˈtɔːr-/
noun [countable] American English informal Date: 1200-1300
Origin: tourney 'to take part in a tournament' (13-20 centuries), from Old French torneier, from tourn; ⇨ tour1
a tournament
Origin: tourney 'to take part in a tournament' (13-20 centuries), from Old French torneier, from tourn; ⇨ tour1