Tournament vs Tourney - What's the difference?
tournament | tourney |
(historical) During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war.
A series of games; either the same game played many times, or a succession of games related by a single theme; played competitively to determine a single winning team or individual.
* 2011 , Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/15195384.stm]
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* Tennyson
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(archaic) To take part in a tournament.
*1843 , '', book 2, ch. XV, ''Practical — Devotional
As nouns the difference between tournament and tourney
is that tournament is during the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war while tourney is tournament.As a verb tourney is
to take part in a tournament.tournament
English
(wikipedia tournament)Noun
(en noun)- England secured their place at Euro 2012 with a scrambled draw in Montenegro - but Wayne Rooney was sent off and will miss the start of the tournament .
tourney
English
Noun
(en noun)- And let the recreant traitors seek
- My tourney court.
- (Francis Bacon)
- We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, / And there is scantly time for half the work.
Verb
(en verb)- Here indeed, perhaps, by rule of antagonisms, may be the place to mention that, after ’s return, there was a liberty of tourneying given to the fighting men of England […]