rival

1. n. A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

3. a. Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority; as, rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions. Source: opted

4. v. t. To stand in competition with; to strive to gain some object in opposition to; as, to rival one in love. Source: opted

5. v. t. To strive to equal or exel; to emulate. Source: opted

6. v. i. To be in rivalry. Source: opted

7. adj. as a rival in a competition Source: wordnet

8. n. the contestant you hope to defeat Source: wordnet

9. v. be equal to in quality or ability Source: wordnet

10. v. be the rival of, be in competition with Source: wordnet

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. Source: adambom

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