QUARTERFINAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quarterfinal mean? 

• QUARTERFINAL (noun)
  The noun QUARTERFINAL has 1 sense:

1. one of the four competitions in an elimination tournament whose winners go on to play in the semifinals

  Familiarity information: QUARTERFINAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUARTERFINAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the four competitions in an elimination tournament whose winners go on to play in the semifinals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("quarterfinal" is a kind of...):

match (a formal contest in which two or more persons or teams compete)

Holonyms ("quarterfinal" is a part of...):

elimination tournament (a tournament in which losers are eliminated in successive rounds)