Rival

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rival \Ri"val\, a.
     Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in
     competition for superiority; as, rival lovers; rival claims
     or pretensions.
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           The strenuous conflicts and alternate victories of two
           rival confederacies of statesmen.        --Macaulay.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rival \Ri"val\, n. [F. rival (cf. It. rivale), L. rivales two
     neigbors having the same brook in common, rivals, fr. rivalis
     belonging to a brook, fr. rivus a brook. Cf. {Rivulet},
     {Rete}.]
     1. A person having a common right or privilege with another;
        a partner. [Obs.]
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              If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus,
              The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste. --Shak.
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     2. One who is in pursuit of the same object as another; one
        striving to reach or obtain something which another is
        attempting to obtain, and which one only can posses; a
        competitor; as, rivals in love; rivals for a crown.
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     Note: "Rivals, in the primary sense of the word, are those
           who dwell on the banks of the same stream. But since,
           as all experience shows, there is no such fruitful
           source of coutention as a water right, it would
           continually happen that these occupants of the opposite
           banks would be at strife with one another in regard of
           the periods during which they severally had a right to
           the use of the stream . . . And thus 'rivals' . . .
           came to be used of any who were on any grounds in more
           or less unfriendly competition with one another."
           --Trench.
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     Syn: Competitor; emulator; antagonist.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rival \Ri"val\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rivaled}or {Rivalled}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Rivaling} or {Rivalling}.]
     1. To stand in competition with; to strive to gain some
        object in opposition to; as, to rival one in love.
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     2. To strive to equal or exel; to emulate.
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              To rival thunder in its rapid course. --Dryden.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rival \Ri"val\, v. i.
     To be in rivalry. [Obs.] --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rival
       n : the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his
           rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was
           doing" [syn: {challenger}, {competitor}, {competition}, {contender}]
       v 1: be equal to in quality or ability; "Nothing can rival cotton
            for durability"; "Your performance doesn't even touch
            that of your colleagues"; "Her persistence and ambition
            only matches that of her parents" [syn: {equal}, {touch},
             {match}]
       2: be the rival of, be in competition with; "we are rivaling
          for first place in the race"
       [also: {rivalling}, {rivalled}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  203 Moby Thesaurus words for "rival":
     admit of comparison, adversary, adversative, adverse, alien,
     amount to, antagonist, antagonistic, antagonize, anti,
     antipathetic, antithetic, approach, attempt, balance, battle,
     battler, be commensurable, be comparable, beat against,
     beat up against, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, blade,
     bravo, brawler, break even, breast the wave, buck, buffet,
     buffet the waves, bully, bullyboy, challenge, challenge comparison,
     clashing, close with, coequal, combat, combatant, come to,
     come up to, compare, compare to, compare with, compeer, compete,
     compete with, competing, competition, competitive, competitor, con,
     conflicting, contend, contend against, contend with, contender,
     contest, contestant, contradictory, contrary, cope, correspond,
     correspond to, corrival, counter, counterpart, cross, cutthroat,
     disaccordant, disputant, dissentient, ditto, draw, duelist,
     emulate, emulator, emulous, enemy, enforcer, entrant, equal,
     equipollent, equivalent, even, even off, fellow, fencer, feuder,
     fight, fight against, fighter, fighting cock, foilsman, fractious,
     gamecock, gladiator, goon, gorilla, grapple with, hatchet man,
     hood, hoodlum, hooligan, hostile, in competition, in rivalry,
     inimical, jockey, join battle with, jouster, keep pace with,
     knight, knot, labor against, like, match, match up with, mate,
     measure up, measure up to, meet, militant, militate against,
     negative, noncooperative, not compare with, obstinate,
     offer resistance, opponent, oppose, opposed, opposing, opposite,
     opposite number, opposition, oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant,
     outvie, overthwart, parallel, partake of, peer, perverse, player,
     plug-ugly, quarreler, reach, recalcitrant, refractory, reluct,
     reluctate, repugnant, resemble, rioter, rivaling, rough, rowdy,
     ruffian, run abreast, run to, sabreur, scrapper, scuffler,
     squabbler, stack up with, stem the tide, strive, strive against,
     strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggle,
     struggle against, struggle with, struggler, swashbuckler, sword,
     swordplayer, swordsman, take on, test one another, the field, thug,
     tie, tilter, touch, tough, try, tussler, twin, uncooperative,
     unfavorable, unfriendly, unpropitious, vie, vie with, vier, vying,
     wrangler