Thesaurus: rival

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1. n. A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.
2. n. 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.
3. a. Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority; as, rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions.
4. v. t. To stand in competition with; to strive to gain some object in opposition to; as, to rival one in love.
5. v. t. To strive to equal or exel; to emulate.
6. v. i. To be in rivalry.
7. adj. as a rival in a competition
8. n. the contestant you hope to defeat
9. v. be equal to in quality or ability
10. v. be the rival of, be in competition with
11. Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competitionfor superiority; as, rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions.The strenuous conflicts and alternate victories of two rivalconfederacies of statesmen. Macaulay.