contest

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Etymology

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PIE word
*tréyes

FromFrenchcontester,fromOld French,fromLatincontestor(“to call to witness”).

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contest(countableanduncountable,pluralcontests)

  1. (uncountable)Controversy;debate.
    Synonyms:controversy,debate,discussion
    nocontest
  2. (uncountable)Struggleforsuperiority;combat.
    Synonyms:battle,combat,fight
  3. (countable)Acompetition.
    Synonyms:competition,pageant
    The child entered the spellingcontest.

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contest(third-person singular simple presentcontests,present participlecontesting,simple past and past participlecontested)

  1. (intransitive)Tocontend.
    Synonyms:compete,contend,go in for
    I willcontestfor the open seat on the board.
  2. (transitive)To call intoquestion;tooppose.
    Synonyms:call into question,oppose
    Antonym:support
    The rivalcontestedthe dictator's re-election because of claims of voting irregularities.
    • 1848,John Daniel Morell,Historical and Critical View of the Speculative Philosophy of Europe in the Nineteenth Century:
      Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequently repeated, few morecontestedthan this.
    • 1981,Anouar Abdel-Malek,Social Dialectics: Nation and Revolution,page13:
      On the other hand, the nationalitarian phenomenon is one in which the struggle against the imperialist powers of occupation has as its object, beyond the clearing of the national territory, the independence and sovereignty of the national State, uprooting in depth the positions of the ex-colonial power— the reconquest of the power of decision in all domains of national life, the prelude to that reconquest of identity which is at the heart of the renaissance undertaken on the basis of fundamental national demands, and ceaselesslycontested,by every means available, on every level, and notably on the internal level'.
  3. (transitive)To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.
    The troopscontestedevery inch of ground.
  4. (law)To make a subject oflitigation;todefend,as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course of law.
    Synonym:controvert

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