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ri⋅val
[rahy-vuh
l] 
noun, adjective, verb, -valed, -val⋅ing or (especially British) -valled, -val⋅ling.–noun
| 1. | a person who is competing for the same object or goal as another, or who tries to equal or outdo another; competitor. |
| 2. | a person or thing that is in a position to dispute another's preeminence or superiority: a stadium without a rival. |
| 3. | Obsolete. a companion in duty. |
–adjective
| 4. | competing or standing in rivalry: rival suitors; rival businesses. |
–verb (used with object)
| 5. | to compete with in rivalry: strive to win from, equal, or outdo. |
| 6. | to prove to be a worthy rival of: He soon rivaled the others in skill. |
| 7. | to equal (something) as if in carrying on a rivalry: The Hudson rivals any European river in beauty. |
–verb (used without object)
| 8. | to engage in rivalry; compete. |
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| ri·val (rī'vəl) n.
v. tr.
To be a competitor or rival; compete. [Latin rīvālis, one using the same stream as another, a rival, from rīvus, stream; see rei- in Indo-European roots.] Synonyms: These verbs mean to seek to equal or surpass another. Rival is the most general: "His ambition led him to rival the career of Edmund Burke" (Henry Adams). |
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Rival
Ri"val\, n. [F. rival (cf. It. rivale), L. rivales two neigbors having the same brook in common, rivals, fr. rivalis belonging to a brook, fr. rivus a brook. Cf. Rivulet, Rete.]1. A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner. [Obs.] If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste. --Shak. 2. One who is in pursuit of the same object as another; one striving to reach or obtain something which another is attempting to obtain, and which one only can posses; a competitor; as, rivals in love; rivals for a crown. Note: "Rivals, in the primary sense of the word, are those who dwell on the banks of the same stream. But since, as all experience shows, there is no such fruitful source of coutention as a water right, it would continually happen that these occupants of the opposite banks would be at strife with one another in regard of the periods during which they severally had a right to the use of the stream . . . And thus 'rivals' . . . came to be used of any who were on any grounds in more or less unfriendly competition with one another." --Trench. Syn: Competitor; emulator; antagonist.Rival
Ri"val\, a. Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority; as, rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions. The strenuous conflicts and alternate victories of two rival confederacies of statesmen. --Macaulay.Rival
Ri"val\, v. i. To be in rivalry. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Language Translation for : rival
Spanish:
rival,
German:
der Rivalel, die Rivalin; rivalisierend,
Japanese:
競争相手
rival (n.)
1577, from L. rivalis "a rival," originally, "one who uses the same stream" (or "one on the opposite side of the stream"), from rivus "brook" (see rivulet). The notion is of the competitiveness of neighbors. The verb is first attested 1605.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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