rival
Etymology
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Etymology
From Latin rīvālis, from rīvus ("small stream, brook").
Pronunciation- IPA: /ˈɹaɪvəl/
rival (plural 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.
- Chris is my biggest rival in the 400-metre race.
- Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another.
- As a social historian, he has no rival.
- (obsolete) One having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene i]:
- If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, / The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.
- French: rival, rivale
- German: Gegner, Rivale, Konkurrent, Gegnerin, Rivalin, Konkurrentin
- Italian: rivale, competitore, antagonista, avversario
- Portuguese: rival, adversário, competidor
- Russian: сопе́рник
- Spanish: rival
- Italian: rivale, pari, avversario
- Portuguese: rival
- Russian: ра́вный
rival (not comparable)
- Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.
- rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 1, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC ↗:
- The strenuous conflicts and alternate victories of two rival confederacies of statesmen.
rival (third-person singular simple present rivals, present participle rivalling or rivaling, simple past and past participle rivalled or rivaled)
- (transitive) To oppose or compete with.
- to rival somebody in love
- To be equal to, or match, or to surpass another.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC ↗:
- The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […] .
- To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.
- 1697, Virgil, translated by John Dryden, The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC ↗:
- to rival thunder in its rapid course
- French: rivaliser
- German: rivalisieren
- Italian: rivaleggiare, competere
- Russian: сопе́рничать
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