Tournaments is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TOURNAMENTS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• TOURNAMENT, a series of games to determine a winner or winning team by elimination
• a modern event involving display of military techniques and exercises
• (in a sport or game) a series of contests between a number of competitors, competing for an overall prize.
• (in the Middle Ages) a sporting event in which two knights (or two groups of knights) jousted on horseback with blunted weapons, each trying to knock the other off, the winner receiving a prize.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a knightly sport of the Middle Ages between mounted combatants armed with blunted lances or swords and divided into two parties contesting for a prize or favor bestowed by the lady of the tournament; the whole series of knightly sports, jousts, and tilts occurring at one time and place

Words related to TOURNAMENTS

tournament12

Words that contain TOURNAMENTS

pretournaments18

How to use TOURNAMENTS in a sentence

• Bellamy told about the skating tournaments every afternoon of the cold weather for the school children, and Saturday afternoons for the older young folks.
• But when the subjects themselves are frivolous, the logical tournaments in their defence degrade the intellect and narrow it.
• Some of the competitors one meets at tournaments have been for years at exactly the same stage.
• But tournaments can very easily be overdone, especially by young players who have not completed what I may call stroke-education.
• But assuming you have practised on sound lines and are fit to take part in what, after all, should be a test of trained skill, tournaments will then be a great help to you.
• This is not right, and I am sure if men had to experience the changing-room accommodation afforded for our use there would not be many of them competing at tournaments.
• I appeal to secretaries of tournaments for some reform.
• In 1898 I played in three tournaments, and in more events at each one.
• These tournaments were first started as training-schools for the practice of arms, and were later tempered by the rules of chivalry.
• There he sought the friendship of the lords of that realm, and fared to all the tournaments of which he might hear.
• What truer happiness might he know than this? Often, besides, he rode to such tournaments of the land as he was able, and all men esteemed him for a stout and worthy knight.
• The combats, one of which was now about to take place, much resemble the ancient tournaments.
• There were some hasty musterings of armed men on pretence of tournaments.
• His banquets, his tournaments, his pious foundations even, dazzled all men by their splendour.
• The passion for military fame which prevailed at this period led to the introduction of mock battles, called Tournaments.
• TOURNAMENTS were combats of honour, in which persons of noble birth entered the lists to gain reputation in feats of arms.
• The difference between tournaments and jousts was, that the former were in the nature of battles, the latter of duels.
• The few weeks which now remained before Charles left Bologna were spent for the most part in jousts and tournaments, visits to churches, and social entertainments.
• Important tennis tournaments are held every summer at Ostend and other places on the coast.
• Years ago he took all the medals and cups at the great shooting tournaments.
• To them, such encounters with Chouannerie, where the Breton of the town fought the Breton of the country district, had taken the place of the old chivalric tournaments.
• This helmet was worn about the sixteenth century, and was probably used for tilting and tournaments.
• In it the German Emperor was elected, and before it tournaments were often held.
• Robins were calling under my windows, and the groves rang with tournaments of happy song.
• Among the half-dozen young people on board who were perpetually organizing tournaments, dances, card-parties, and concerts, she was the most indefatigable.
• Lawn tennis tournaments were epidemic all over the country.
• This was the playground of the gods, where they practised trials of skill and held tournaments and sham fights.

Similar words containing TOURNAMENT without suffix s

tournament12 pretournament17 pretournaments18

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