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ɪn noun
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a person or thing that challenges.
2.
Boxing. a boxer who fights a champion for his championship title.
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( initial capital letter, italics ) U.S. Aerospace. the second space shuttle to orbit and return to earth: exploded 1½ min. after launch on Jan. 28, 1986, causing the death of all seven on board.
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Non-challenger
is always a great word to know.
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| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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challenge (ˈtʃælɪndʒ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —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 calumnia | |
| 'challengeable | |
| —adj | |
| 'challenger | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
challenger
late 13c., Anglo-Fr. chalengeour, agent noun from challenge. Specific sense of "one who calls out another in a contest" is from 1511.
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