rival
IPA: rˈaɪvʌɫ
noun
- 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.
- Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another.
- (obsolete) One having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.
verb
- (transitive) To oppose or compete with.
- To be equal to, or match, or to surpass another.
- To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.
adjective
- Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.
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Examples of "rival" in Sentences
- She is anxious to outdo her rival.
- The play was a mimicry of its rival.
- The play was a mimicry of its rival's.
- Thorburn relegates rival to second spot.
- The team mauled its rival at the stadium.
- The rival in the final was good at dancing.
- His rival is the Viceroy of the Spanish colony.
- Charlie and a rival vie for the favors of their landlady.
- Like the Democrats, the Braves are as rapacious as their rivals.
- The declaration of a rival messiah was intolerable to the Christians.
- Respect, which he feels was sorely lacking from his title rival on the race track, seems to be earned after Toronto.
- Meanwhile, his title rival Paul Hanagan scored easily on Wootton Bassett yesterday and is now 13 clear in the jockeys 'championship.
- Hosting the event will be Björn Türoque, one of the stars of the documentary, C-Diddy's main rival from the States, and he's here in Edinburgh.
- Water wars have been with us for all of human history -- the word "rival" comes from a Latin word meaning "one who uses the same stream as another."
- The French Citroën driver Loeb, who has an eight-point advantage over the Finnish Ford driver Mikko Hirvonen going into this final race of the season, leads his title rival by only 0.7 seconds.
- Continuing to set the pace in the dying stages of the session, his fastest lap, a 1m05. 347s looked good until his title rival, Vernay, dropped a 1m05. 298s leaving James with no time to respond.
- The win was Sam's fourth of the season, and with his title rival James Westmoreland finishing second in the race, he needs only a fifth-place finish in the final two rounds to clinch the championship.
- He did briefly get past Neal for 5th but his title rival would quickly get back past him on the same lap, and then Plato slipped further back by first losing a place to his Silverline Chevrolet team mate Alex
- Red Bull driver's lap of 1min 37.942sec at the new Korean International Circuit was almost two-tenths of a second quicker than that of his title rival Fernando Alonso of Ferrari, with another championship contender, Lewis Hamilton of McLaren, third fastest.
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