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tournay

tournay is the alternative spelling of tourney.

Meaning of tourney

Noun

tourney (plural tourneys or tournies)

  1. A tournament.
    • By a knight of ghostes & shadowes,
      I sumon’d am to Tourney.
      ten leagues beyond the wide worlds endc. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665)

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Proper noun capitalized: Tournay

Tournay (countable and uncountable, plural Tournays)

  1. A village in Hautes-Pyrénées department, Occitania.
  2. A surname from French.

Forms of tournay

Noun
pluraltournays
Proper noun
pluralTournays

Origin of tournay

From Anglo-Norman turnei, from Old French tornei (“tournament”), from tornoier (“to joust, tilt”).

Borrowed from French Tournay.

Questions about tournay

What does tournay mean?
Tournay means a village in Hautes-Pyrénées department, Occitania.
What is tournay the alternative spelling of?
Tournay is the alternative spelling of tourney.
What part of speech is tournay?
Tournay is a proper noun.

Words near tournay in the dictionary

  1. tournament
  2. tournamental
  3. tournaments
  4. Tournapull
  5. Tournapulls
  6. tournay
  7. tournays
  8. tourne
  9. tournedo
  10. tournedos
  11. tournedos Rossini

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