A rival is a competitor or contender that you want to defeat, whether in an actual competition or for another goal. It may be a tennis rival or a rival for your true love’s affections.
A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.
Noun
the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing"
Verb
be the rival of, be in competition with; "we are rivaling for first place in the race"
Verb
be equal to in quality or ability; "Nothing can rival cotton for durability"; "Your performance doesn''t even touch that of your colleagues"; "Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents"
n.
A person having a common right or privilege with another; a
partner.
n.
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.
a.
Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in
competition for superiority; as, rival lovers; rival claims or
pretensions.
v. t.
To stand in competition with; to strive to gain some
object in opposition to; as, to rival one in love.
v. t.
To strive to equal or exel; to emulate.
v. i.
To be in rivalry.
Rival
If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.2.
Rival
The strenuous conflicts and alternate victories of two rival confederacies of statesmen.
Rival
To rival thunder in its rapid course.
Rival
A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.
Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority;
To stand in competition with; to strive to gain some object in opposition to;
To be in rivalry.
Usage Examples
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.
Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected.
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Other Usage ExamplesOne's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
Few would argue that Richard Dawkins is the world's most famous atheist, especially now that his friend and rival for the title, Christopher Hitchens, has now gone to meet his Maker.
Bear patiently with a rival.
If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.