{
    "term": "tournament",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a sports competition involving a number of teams or players who take part in different games and must leave the competition if they lose. The competition continues until there is only the winner left.",
            "labels": "North American English, less frequent",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **golf/tennis/soccer/chess tournament**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Several top teams have agreed to play (in) the tournament."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She retired from tournament golf last year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The loser will be out of the tournament."
                },
                {
                    "text": "her first tournament win of the season"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has criticized tournament organizers for ticketing problems."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was invited to compete in a charity five-a-side tournament."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She finished fifth in the Olympic qualifying tournament."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Sports: ball and racket sports"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["basketball", "chess", "golf"],
                "verb + tournament": ["enter", "play", "play in"],
                "tournament + verb": ["take place"],
                "tournament + noun": ["victory", "win", "leader"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the tournament", "out of a/​the tournament"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a competition in the Middle Ages between knights on horseback fighting to show courage and skill",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a medieval jousting tournament"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈtʊənəmənt//ˈtɔːnəmənt/",
                "audio": "to/tournament/tournament__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈtʊrnəmənt/",
                "audio": "to/tournament/tournament__us_1_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (in sense (2)): from Anglo-Norman French variants of Old French torneiement, from torneier ‘take part in a tourney’, based on Latin tornus ‘a turn’."
}