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Tourney vs Rivalry - What's the difference?

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Tourney is a related term of rivalry.


As nouns the difference between tourney and rivalry

is that tourney is tournament while rivalry is the relationship between two or more rivals who regularly compete with each other the term usually applies to two rivals.

As a verb tourney

is (archaic) to take part in a tournament.

tourney

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • tournament
  • *1793,
  • And let the recreant traitors seek
    My tourney court.
    (Francis Bacon)
  • * Tennyson
  • We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, / And there is scantly time for half the work.
  • * {{quote-book, i1=*
  • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter XIV , passage=Kipper stood blinking, as I had sometimes seen him do at the boxing tourneys in which he indulged when in receipt of a shrewd buffet on some tender spot like the tip of the nose.}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To take part in a tournament.
  • *1843 , '', book 2, ch. XV, ''Practical — Devotional
  • 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 […]

    rivalry

    English

    Noun

    (rivalries)
  • The relationship between two or more rivals who regularly compete with each other. The term usually applies to two rivals.
  • The Boston Bruins have a longstanding rivalry with the Montreal Canadiens.
  • In economics, rivalry is a characteristic of a good. Rivalrous goods are those which can be consumed by only one person at the same time -- for example, a candy bar or a suit; a non-rivalrous good may be provided to more consumers at a very low marginal cost for each additional consumer.
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