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Definition: Tourney |
TourneyNoun1. A sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner. Verb1. Engage in a tourney. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tourney" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Synonym: TourneySynonym: tournament (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tourney |
| English words defined with "tourney": Turney. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "tourney": tournament, Turney. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Disposition of one side of a tourney field. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Tourney" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "Tourney" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 77.78% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 22.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "tourney"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | marr pjesë në dyluftim, dyluftim (duel, meeting, rencontre, rencounter, tournament), bejleg (tournament). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مسابقة (bout, competition, concurrence, contest, play, quiz, quiz programme, race, tournament). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | участвувам в турнир (joust), турнир (carrousel, joust, tilt, tournament). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | turnajaiset (tournament). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tournoi (tournament). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Turnier (competition, joust, jousting, show, tournament). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λογχομαχία ιππότων (tournament), λογχομαχία ιππέων (tournament), αγών (agent, bout, combat, game, heave, spar, strife, struggle, tug, tussle), αγωνίζομαι (contend, contend with, contest, scramble for, strive, struggle), αθλητικόσ αγώνασ (tournament), αθλητικόσ αγών (tournament), τουρνουά (tournament). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תחרות (competition, contest, game, match, rivalry, stakes, strife, tournament). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lovagi tornán részt vesz, lovagi torna (joust, tournament). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | torneo (joust, tilt, tournament). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ourneytay torneio (contest, joust, tilt, tournament), justa. (various references) турнир (tournament). (various references) turnir (tournament), učestvovati na turniru. (various references) torneo (championship, tournament). (various references) tornerspel (tournament), tornering (joust, tournament). (various references) turnuvaya katılmak, turnuva (tournament). (various references) турнір (tournament). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | tornare. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | torneier. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tourney": tourneyed, tourneying, tourneys. (additional references) | |
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"Tourney" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dounray, Gournay, Tomrley, Tornay, torne, torney, Torsney, tougne, touren, tourent, Tournay, tournee, tournen, tourner, tournes, tournet, tourneyed, Tournod, Tournoi, tournon, Tournus, Turnley. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tourney" (pronounced ter"nē) |
| 4 | t er" n ē | attorney. |
| 3 | -er" n ē | Gurney, journey. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-n-o-r-t-u-y" | |
-1 letter: tenour. | |
-2 letters: entry, noter, onery, outer, outre, rouen, route, runty, tenor, toner, toney, toyer, trone, tuner, tuyer, yourn. | |
-3 letters: euro, note, oyer, rent, rote, roue, rout, rune, runt, ryot, tern, tone, tony, tore, torn, tory, tour, trey, troy, true, tune, turn, tyer, tyne, tyre, tyro, unto, yore, your, yurt. | |
-4 letters: eon, ern, net, nor. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-n-o-r-t-u-y" | |
+1 letter: tourneys. | |
+2 letters: routinely, tourneyed, youngster. | |
+3 letters: countercry, counterspy, countrymen, neuropathy, poultrymen, tourneying, tutoyering, understory, youngsters. | |
+4 letters: congruently, corpulently, countermyth, counterplay, counterploy, countryfied, countryseat, countryside, countrywide, courtesying, documentary, extenuatory, fortunately, granulocyte, importunely, intercounty, opportunely, outwearying, perfunctory, questionary, strenuosity, strenuously, typefounder, unseaworthy, ventriloquy, venturously. | |
+5 letters: agranulocyte, concurrently, countermyths, counterplays, counterploys, counterrally, counterstyle, countryseats, countrysides, countrywomen, denunciatory, elocutionary, evolutionary, extraneously, granulocytes, intercountry, multisensory, neuroanatomy, neurotically, polyneuritis, polyurethane, portentously, remuneratory, renunciatory, thunderously, tremendously, typefounders, ungenerosity, unnewsworthy. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 6F 75 72 6E 65 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101111 01110101 01110010 01101110 01100101 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T o u r n e y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 006F 0075 0072 006E 0065 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54818784807191 |
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