Usually means: Medieval sport involving horseback lance combat.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. jousting: Merriam-Webster
  2. jousting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jousting: Collins English Dictionary
  4. jousting: Vocabulary.com
  5. Jousting, jousting: Wordnik
  6. jousting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. jousting: Wiktionary
  8. jousting: Dictionary.com
  9. Jousting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. jousting: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. jousting: Legal dictionary

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  1. jousting: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Jousting: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (jousting)

▸ noun:  A medieval European sport in which mounted knights charged at each other bearing lances.
▸ noun:  (figurative) Any activity in which two people spar with each other verbally.

Similar:
tilt, lancing, attaint, stuck, dueling, assault, lunge, swordfight, gladiature, jolt, more...

Opposite:
melee, duel, combat, skirmish

Phrases:
jousting lance, Water jousting, jousting helm, jousting weapons, jousting weapon, more...

Adjectives:
verbal, political, intellectual, great, medieval, legal, such, rhetorical, literary, preliminary, much

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Similar:
tilt, lancing, attaint, stuck, dueling, assault, lunge, swordfight, gladiature, jolt, more...

Opposite:
melee, duel, combat, skirmish

Phrases:
jousting lance, Water jousting, jousting helm, jousting weapons, jousting weapon, more...

Adjectives:
verbal, political, intellectual, great, medieval, legal, such, rhetorical, literary, preliminary, much



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