tourney
/ˈtʊə(ɹ)ni/US/ˈtɝni/
tourney noun: a tournament.
Noun
tourney (plural tourneys or tournies)
- 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) - And let the recreant traitors seek
My tourney court.1816, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “(please specify the page)”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], →OCLC
- By a knight of ghostes & shadowes,
Verb
tourney (third-person singular simple present tourneys, present participle tourneying, simple past and past participle tourneyed)
- To take part in a tournament.
- Here indeed, perhaps, by rule of antagonisms, may be the place to mention that, after King Richard’s return, there was a liberty of tourneying given to the fighting men of England […]1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. XV, Practical — Devotional”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The...
tourney meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Telugu
tourney in Tamil
- டூர்னி
tourney in Bengali
- টুর্নামেন্ট, টুর্নামেন্টে অংশ নেওয়া
tourney in Telugu
- tourney
- టోర్నీ ṭōrnī
Forms of tourney
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | tourneys |
| plural | tournies |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | tourneys |
| present participle | tourneying |
| past participle | tourneyed |
| past | tourneyed |
Origin of tourney
From Anglo-Norman turnei, from Old French tornei (“tournament”), from tornoier (“to joust, tilt”).
Words that rhyme with tourney
Questions about tourney
- What does tourney mean?
- Tourney means a tournament.
- What is tourney in Tamil?
- Tourney in Tamil is டூர்னி. See Tourney meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is tourney?
- Tourney can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce tourney?
- Tourney is pronounced /ˈtɝni/ (US).
- What is the plural of tourney?
- The plural of tourney is tourneys.
Words near tourney in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tourney (page history and authors); tourney (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tourney (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); టోర్నీ (Telugu) (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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