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competitor

noun
/kəmˈpɛt.ɪ.tɚ/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French compétiteur, from Latin competitor.

  1. derived from competitor
  2. borrowed from compétiteur

Definitions

  1. A person or organization against whom one is competing.

    • Hitherto the river had given facilities to Kingston traders which their competitors elsewhere could not possess, but now the railway took the malt from distant towns to the London market at lower rates than the bargemasters.

  2. A participant in a competition, especially in athletics.

  3. Partner, associate, one working with another toward a common goal.

The neighborhood

Derived

anticompetitor, archcompetitor, competitorship, competitress, coopetitor, intercompetitor, noncompetitor, supercompetitor

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at competitor. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at competitor. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at competitor

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA