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turney

turney is the obsolete form 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: Turney

Turney (countable and uncountable, plural Turneys)

  1. A surname from Norman.
  2. A village in Clinton County, Missouri, United States.

Forms of turney

Noun
pluralturneys
Verb
third-person singular presentturneys
present participleturneying
past participleturneyed
pastturneyed
Proper noun
pluralTurneys

Origin of turney

Habitational surname of Norman origin, from any of various places in France called Tournai, Tournay or Tourny.

Questions about turney

What does turney mean?
Turney means a surname from Norman.
What is turney the obsolete form of?
Turney is the obsolete form of tourney.
What part of speech is turney?
Turney is a proper noun.

Words near turney in the dictionary

  1. Turners Marsh
  2. Turnersville
  3. turnery
  4. turnest
  5. turneth
  6. turney
  7. turneyed
  8. turneying
  9. turneys
  10. Turnford
  11. turnhall

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Adapted from Wiktionary: turney (page history and authors); Turney (page history and authors); tourney (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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