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engagement
English
Etymology
From French engagement.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n??e?d??.m?nt/
- Hyphenation: en?gage?ment
Noun
engagement (countable and uncountable, plural engagements)
- (countable) An appointment, especially to speak or perform.
- The lecturer has three speaking engagements this week.
- (uncountable) Connection or attachment.
- Check the gears for full engagement before turning the handle.
- (uncountable, by extension, about human emotional state) The feeling of being compelled, drawn in, connected to what is happening, interested in what will happen next.
- (countable, uncountable) The period of time when marriage is planned or promised.
- We are enjoying a long engagement, but haven't yet set a date.
- (countable, uncountable) In any situation of conflict, an actual instance of active hostilities.
- The engagement resulted in many casualties.
- (fencing, countable) The point at which the fencers are close enough to join blades, or to make an effective attack during an encounter.
- After engagement it quickly became clear which of the fencers was going to prevail.
Synonyms
- commitment
- action
Antonyms
- apathy
- disengagement
Derived terms
- engagement ring
- disengagement
Related terms
- engage
Translations
See also
- battle
- campaign
References
French
Etymology
engager +? -ment.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.?a?.m??/
Noun
engagement m (plural engagements)
- commitment
- engagement
Further reading
- “engagement” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norman
Etymology
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Noun
engagement m (plural engagements)
- (Jersey) engagement
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tourney
English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman turnei, from Old French tornei (“tournament”), from tornoier (“to joust, tilt”)
Noun
tourney (plural tourneys or tournies)
- 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.
- By a knight of ghostes & shadowes,
- 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.
- c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):
Verb
tourney (third-person singular simple present tourneys, present participle tourneying, simple past and past participle tourneyed)
- (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 […]
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XV, Practical — Devotional
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