Rivalry

3 definitions found

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

  Rivalry \Ri"val*ry\, n.; pl. {Rivalries}.
     The act of rivaling, or the state of being a rival; a
     competition. "Keen contention and eager rivalries."
     --Jeffrey.
     [1913 Webster]
  


     Syn: Emulation; competition. See {Emulation}.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rivalry
       n : the act of competing as for profit or a prize; "the teams
           were in fierce contention for first place" [syn: {competition},
            {contention}] [ant: {cooperation}]

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

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "rivalry":
     antagonism, antipathy, bad blood, clashing, collision, competition,
     competitiveness, conflict, contention, contrariety, contrariness,
     controversy, covetousness, cross-purposes, cutthroat competition,
     disaccord, discord, dispute, dissension, emulation, enmity,
     enviousness, envy, feud, fractiousness, friction, gamesmanship,
     grudging, grudgingness, hostility, inimicalness, invidia,
     invidiousness, jealousy, jockeying, lifemanship, negativeness,
     noncooperation, obstinacy, one-upmanship, oppugnancy, perverseness,
     recalcitrance, refractoriness, repugnance, strife, striving,
     struggle, tug-of-war, uncooperativeness, vying, warfare