Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tourney

/ˈtɝni/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.09 in modern English

Syllables: tour-ney
IPA: /ˈtɝni/

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

verb

To take part in a tournament.

Archaic

Example Sentences

"By a knight of ghostes & shadowes, I sumon’d am to Tourney. ten leagues beyond the wide worlds end"
"And let the recreant traitors seek My tourney court."
"We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, And there is scantly time for half the work."
"Kipper stood blinking, as I had sometimes seen him do at the boxing tourneys in which he indulged when in receipt of a shrewd buffet on some tender spot like the tip of the nose."
"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 […]"

Etymology

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

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈtɝni/
British English: /ˈtʊə(ɹ)ni/

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

tourneys (plural) tournies (plural) tourneys (present, singular) tourneying (participle, present) tourneyed (participle, past) tourneyed (past)

Synonyms

tournament

Rhymes With

attorney journey bernie ernie gurney kearney burney kearny turney birney mcburney verney

Questions

How do you pronounce tourney?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈtɝni/.
What does tourney mean?: A tournament.
Where does tourney come from?: From Anglo-Norman turnei, from Old French tornei (“tournament”), from tornoier (“to joust, tilt”).

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