challenger
see also: Challenger
Noun
Challenger
Proper noun
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see also: Challenger
Noun
challenger (plural challengers)
- One who challenges; especially, one who plays against the current champion of a game or contest in hopes of winning and becoming the new champion.
- The champion hopes to defeat his new challenger in the game to remain undefeated.
- One child stood as king of the hill, and tried to withstand the pushes and shoves of his challengers.
- Debates are often unpredictable, but it is especially hard to game out how this debate featuring a moderate standard-bearer and a liberal challenger will unfold and how people will process it. Hundreds of thousands of viewers, if not millions, will have been personally affected by Sunday, as public gathering spaces are shuttered, schools are closed and on Thursday the stock market plunged by the largest percentage in decades (it snapped back upward on Friday).
- French: challengeur
- German: Herausforderer, Herausforderin
- Spanish: desafiador
Challenger
Proper noun
- A space shuttle, named after the HMS Challenger (1858), destroyed on January 28, 1986 with loss of its seven-member crew.
- Russian: Че́лленджер
challenger (plural challengers)
- (rail) a steam locomotive of the 4-6-6-4 wheel arrangement. swp 4-6-6-4
- 1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 102:
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- 1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 102:
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