contestant
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| a person who takes part in a contest; competitor | |
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Contestant
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
contestant
1660s, from Fr. contestant, prp. of contester (see contest). Noun meaning "one who contests" popularized in U.S. Civil War, when it was a journalist's term for the combatants on either side.
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Example sentences
Every week, one contestant is supposed to be eliminated.
No contestant notes are allowed at the table prior to the moderator starting the meet.
Then the home audience would vote by telephone for the ugliest contestant, who would receive plastic surgery for free.
No popular game show contestant would be either beaten by the police or mocked on air.
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