Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈɹaɪvəl/
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ˈɹaɪvəl
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.
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Chris is my biggest rival in the 400-metre race.
Every day is like survival / You're my lover, not my rival
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The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you[…] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another.
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As a social historian, he has no rival.
One having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.
Usage- Obsolete
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If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, / The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.
Adjective
Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.
Usage- not-comparable
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rival lovers
rival claims or pretensions
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The strenuous conflicts and alternate victories of two rival confederacies of statesmen.
Japan’s largest yakuza crime syndicate has pledged to end its longstanding war with a rival faction and refrain from causing “trouble,” authorities said, as the mafia-like groups contend with falling membership and increased police crackdowns.
Verb
To oppose or compete with.
Usage- Transitive
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to rival somebody in love
To be equal to, or match, or to surpass another.
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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, […].
To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.
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to rival thunder in its rapid course
Adjective
as a rival in a competition
Noun
the contestant you hope to defeat
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he had respect for his rivals
he wanted to know what the competition was doing
Verb
be equal to in quality or ability
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Nothing can rival cotton for durability
Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues
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Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents
be the rival of, be in competition with
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we are rivaling for first place in the race