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challenger

 [chal-in-jer]   Origin

chal·leng·er

   [chal-in-jer]
noun
1.
a person or thing that challenges.
2.
Boxing. a boxer who fights a champion for his championship title.
3.
Radio. interrogator (def. 2).
4.
(initial capital letter, italics) U.S. Aerospace. the second space shuttle to orbit and return to earth: exploded 11/2 min. after launch on Jan. 28, 1986, causing the death of all seven on board.
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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English; see challenge, -er1

Related forms
non·chal·leng·er, noun
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challenge (ˈtʃælɪndʒ)
 
—vb
1.  to invite or summon (someone to do something, esp to take part in a contest)
2.  (also intr) to call (something) into question; dispute
3.  to make demands on; stimulate: the job challenges his ingenuity
4.  to order (a person) to halt and be identified or to give a password
5.  law to make formal objection to (a juror or jury)
6.  to lay claim to (attention, etc)
7.  (intr) hunting (of a hound) to cry out on first encountering the scent of a quarry
8.  to inject (an experimental animal immunized with a test substance) with disease microorganisms to test for immunity to the disease
 
—n
9.  a call to engage in a fight, argument, or contest
10.  a questioning of a statement or fact; a demand for justification or explanation
11.  a demanding or stimulating situation, career, object, etc
12.  a demand by a sentry, watchman, etc, for identification or a password
13.  (US) an assertion that a person is not entitled to vote or that a vote is invalid
14.  law a formal objection to a person selected to serve on a jury (challenge to the polls) or to the whole body of jurors (challenge to the array)
 
[C13: from Old French chalenge, from Latin calumniacalumny]
 
'challengeable
 
—adj
 
'challenger
 
—n

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challenger
late 13c., Anglo-Fr. chalengeour, agent noun from challenge. Specific sense of "one who calls out another in a contest" is from 1511.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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