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pre-tournament

pre-tournament is the alternative form of pretournament.

Meaning of pretournament

Adjective

pretournament (not comparable)

  1. Occurring before, or in preparation for, a tournament
    • "I think there's a lot of things I can learn from him," said Kim, who already has modeled his pretournament routine after Woods's.2009 January 8, Larry Dorman, “With Woods Absent, Youthful Newcomers Prepare to Challenge”, in New York Times

Noun

pre-tournament (plural pre-tournaments)

  1. prelude to a tournament

Forms of pre-tournament

Adjective
alternative formpretournament
Noun
pluralpre-tournaments

Origin of pre-tournament

From pre- + tournament.

Questions about pre-tournament

What does pre-tournament mean?
Pre-tournament means prelude to a tournament.
What is pre-tournament the alternative form of?
Pre-tournament is the alternative form of pretournament.
What part of speech is pre-tournament?
Pre-tournament is a noun.
What is the plural of pre-tournament?
The plural of pre-tournament is pre-tournaments.

Words near pre-tournament in the dictionary

  1. pre-tinning
  2. pre-tins
  3. pre-to-post
  4. pre-tonic
  5. pre-tour
  6. pre-tournament
  7. pre-tournaments
  8. pre-train
  9. pre-trained
  10. pre-training
  11. pre-trains

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pre-tournament (page history and authors); pretournament (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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