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[edit]Etymology
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*tréyes |
FromFrenchcontester,fromOld French,fromLatincontestor(“to call to witness”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]contest(countableanduncountable,pluralcontests)
- (uncountable)Controversy;debate.
- Synonyms:controversy,debate,discussion
- nocontest
- (uncountable)Struggleforsuperiority;combat.
- (countable)Acompetition.
- Synonyms:competition,pageant
- The child entered the spellingcontest.
Derived terms
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[edit]controversy
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combat—seecombat
competition—see alsocompetition
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Verb
[edit]contest(third-person singular simple presentcontests,present participlecontesting,simple past and past participlecontested)
- (intransitive)Tocontend.
- 1725,Homer,“Book IV”, in [Elijah Fenton], transl.,The Odyssey of Homer.[…],volume I, London:[…]Bernard Lintot,→OCLC:
- Of man, who dares in pomp with Jovecontest?
- 1684-1690,Thomas Burnet,Sacred Theory of the Earth
- As for the difficulty or obscurity of an argument, that does but add to the pleasure.of contesting with it when there are hopes of victory
- (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'.
- (transitive)To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.
- The troopscontestedevery inch of ground.
- (law)To make a subject oflitigation;todefend,as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course of law.
- Synonym:controvert
Translations
[edit]to contend
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to oppose
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