rival
a person who is competing for the same object or goal as another, or who tries to equal or outdo another; competitor.
a person or thing that is in a position to dispute another's preeminence or superiority: a stadium without a rival.
Obsolete. a companion in duty.
competing or standing in rivalry: rival suitors;rival businesses.
to compete with in rivalry; strive to win from, equal, or outdo.
to prove to be a worthy rival of: He soon rivaled the others in skill.
to equal (something) as if in carrying on a rivalry: The Hudson rivals any European river in beauty.
to engage in rivalry; compete.
Origin of rival
1synonym study For rival
Other words for rival
Opposites for rival
Other words from rival
- ri·val·less, adjective
- non·ri·val, noun, adjective
- outrival, verb (used with object), out·ri·valed, out·ri·val·ing or (especially British) out·ri·valled, out·ri·val·ling.
- un·ri·val·ing, adjective
- un·ri·val·ling, adjective
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How to use rival in a sentence
A victory Thursday night over the division rival Seattle Seahawks would put them alone in first place and perhaps make them the favorite to claim the NFC West, if not the conference.
Kyler Murray runs out of miracles as Seahawks hang on to take over first place in NFC West | Mark Maske | November 20, 2020 | Washington PostOpensignal collects average download speeds from apps installed on millions of consumers phones, rather than by driving around with its own test phones, as rival Rootmetrics does.
There’s more 5G available in big cities. But which carrier is fastest? | Aaron Pressman | November 19, 2020 | FortuneAt the same time, for all the focus on Instagram, TikTok’s original rival Snapchat still looms.
‘A different atmosphere than couple months ago’: How the Instagram-TikTok rivalry for creators has cooled | Tim Peterson | November 16, 2020 | DigidayIt climbed to the number one spot among free apps in Apple and Google’s app stores, beating out rivals including TikTok and Zoom.
Americans flock to social media platforms where misinformation goes unchecked | Nicolás Rivero | November 13, 2020 | QuartzGoogle also offered rivals the chance to bid for a spot in the search-engine choice menu for new phones running on Google’s Android software.
Europe fined Google nearly $10 billion for antitrust violations, but little has changed | Jeanne Whalen | November 10, 2020 | Washington Post
That Scrubs failure could be rivaled by that lottery-winning season of Roseanne most of us prefer to pretend never happened.
‘Community’ Review: ‘Repilot’ Is Both an Epic Failure and a Major Success | Kevin Fallon | January 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHer fame in the 60s and 70s rivaled that of any celebrity in the world.
Death of JFK Spawned an Industry That Thrived for Decades | Richard Woodward | November 24, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTMemorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery is the most busy day of the year (though rivaled by Veterans' Day).
The whole incident was a PR nightmare for McCain, rivaled only by the shenanigans of his own running mate.
In art history, their achievement rivaled the invention of Cubism.
They rivaled the Jacobins in the endeavor to see who could strike the heaviest blows against the throne.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. AbbottIt is still the most brilliant illuminating gas we have, and is rivaled by the electric arc-light only.
Invention | Bradley A. FiskeBut no sylph came again; no form rivaled the zephyr before me.
Capable botanists and chemists are employed, and nature herself is rivaled in delicate construction and fragrance even.
The Harris-Ingram Experiment | Charles E. BoltonThe general orders of some subordinate Confederate commanders repeated or rivaled such denunciations and threats.
A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln | John G. Nicolay
British Dictionary definitions for rival
/ (ˈraɪvəl) /
a person, organization, team, etc, that competes with another for the same object or in the same field
(as modifier): rival suitors; a rival company
a person or thing that is considered the equal of another or others: she is without rival in the field of economics
to be the equal or near equal of: an empire that rivalled Rome
to try to equal or surpass; compete with in rivalry
Origin of rival
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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