rival
Plural: rivals
Noun
- the contestant you hope to defeat
- "he had respect for his rivals"
- A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing. Defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor.
- Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another.
- One having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.
Verb
Verb Forms: rivaled, rivaling, rivals, rivalled, rivalling
- To compete or strive to be equal or superior to.
- be equal to in quality or ability
- "Nothing can rival cotton for durability"
- be the rival of, be in competition with
- "we are rivaling for first place in the race"
- To oppose or compete with.
- To be equal to, or match, or to surpass another.
- To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.
Adj
- Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.
Examples
- As a social historian, he has no rival.
- Chris is my biggest rival in the 400-metre race.
- No player can RIVAL her Words With Friends scores when she gets the ’Z’.
- rival claims or pretensions
- rival lovers
- to rival somebody in love
Origin / Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin rīvālis (literally “person using the same stream as another”).
Synonyms
challenger, competition, competitor, contender, equal, match, touch
Scrabble Score: 8
rival: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordrival: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
rival: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary