different between competition vs tourney

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French compétition, from Late Latin compet?ti?, compet?ti?nem, from Latin compet?, from con- + pet?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?mp??t???n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??mp??t???n/

Noun

competition (countable and uncountable, plural competitions)

1. (uncountable) The action of competing.
2. (countable) A contest for a prize or award.

3. (uncountable, collectively) The competitors in such a contest.

Antonyms

• (action of competing): cooperation

Derived terms

• competitioner
• economic competition

Related terms

• competitive
• compete
• competent

Translations

English

Etymology

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

Noun

tourney (plural tourneys or tournies)

1. Tournament.
   • c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):

     By a knight of ghostes & shadowes,
     I sumon’d am to Tourney.
     ten leagues beyond the wide worlds end
     mee thinke it is noe iourney.

   • 1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel

     And let the recreant traitors seek

     My tourney court.

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Marriage of Geraint

     We hold a tourney here tomorrow morn, / And there is scantly time for half the work.

Verb

tourney (third-person singular simple present tourneys, present participle tourneying, simple past and past participle tourneyed)

1. (archaic) To take part in a tournament.
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XV, Practical — Devotional

     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 […]

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