rival

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to…

   A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing. Defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor.

   • Chris is my biggest rival in the 400-metre race.
   • Every day is like survival / You're my lover, not my rival
2. 2

   Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another.

   • As a social historian, he has no rival.
3. 3

   One having a common right or privilege with another

   One having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.

   • If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, / The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.
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   1. 4

      Having the same pretensions or claims

      Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.

      • rival lovers
      • rival claims or pretensions
      • The strenuous conflicts and alternate victories of two rival confederacies of statesmen.
   2. 5

      To oppose or compete with.

      • to rival somebody in love
   3. 6

      To be equal to, or match, or to surpass another.

      • But the Waverley is still the best-placed station of any British city, and gives the arriving stranger a first impression rivalled in Europe only by the exclusively watery station approach at Venice.
      • The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].
   4. 7

      To strive to equal or excel

      To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.

      • to rival thunder in its rapid course

The neighborhood

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