Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who contends; a combatant; a disputer; a wrangler.
Wiktionary
- n. Someone who competes with one or more other people
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who contends; a contestant.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the contestant you hope to defeat
Etymologies
- to contend + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Another title contender, Fernando Alonso, had his title hopes thwarted by his inability to pass Vitaly Petrov.”
The Guardian: Abu Dhabi circuit is flawed, says McLaren's Martin Whitmarsh
“They're just not the type of franchise players a team can build a title contender around.”
“But Tony Stewart proved Monday that everybody is a title contender when, days after crossing himself off a list of viable threats to win the championship, he snapped a 32-race winless streak with his victory at Chicago.”
“Even worse, he absolutely did not sound like a title contender on Sunday.”
“Busch was a title contender at the start of the 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup championship, and he opened it tied with Harvick as the top seed.”
“It continued with the bizarre, as in why in the world did a title contender in Boston act like a small-market club in dealing its glue guy, Kendrick Perkins?”
“Well, its a tough one, but i feel Chelsea would be a title contender to ManU more than Man City.”
“Fernando Alonso expects Ferrari to be a title contender in 2012.”
“But three years after the arrival of Rivers, when Boston became a title contender by acquiring Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen, Pierce was a fully formed star who helped win in a variety of ways.”
“But all things appear to be equal at the moment, and Kurt Busch's Penske teammate Brad Keselowski had a marvelous summer, developing into a title contender and a news media darling.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘contender’.
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POL - people in power
daredevil, tzar, king, boss, master, commander, chief, kingpin, top banana, bigwig, big cheese, big wheel and 452 more...
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Derby Day!
List of terms one could expect to hear or read in connection with the Kentucky Derby, or high-stakes horse racing in general. This is an open list.
morning line, filly, field, post, favorite, two-year-old, colt, three-year-old, lifetime starts, trained, trainer, owner and 91 more...
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Headlines & Newsmakers
frugality, environment, extinction, bible, killer, jazz, cloning, dead, god, moon, global warming, bailout and 340 more...
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AGRI - horse breeding
place bet, Przewalski's horse, piaffe, genus Claviceps, stadium jumping, draft animal, snaffle bit, noseband, equestrian sport, endurance riding, curb bit, dressage and 678 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric
The ones with which I flavor my speech, and the ones I love to find peppered in literature.
perspicacious, acerbic, vituperation, loquacious, castigate, vitriolic, scintillating, provenance, frolic, attendant, pursuant, epistemology and 313 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Foxtrot's list
afternoon delight, almost unreal, full of spark, dazzle n daze, alarming stride, rushing tide, double dagger, in the nude, constant pressure, widow maker, bourbon on the rocks, air fare holme and 311 more...
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Norman Lewis
All Words
ebullient, eccentric, eclectic, edify, efface, effusion, egalitarian, egocentric, egoist, egregious, elicit, elliptical and 907 more...
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South Street Reading
Hip, Hippie, offbeat, to boot, commerce, culinary, plummet, community, insist, perennial, contender, labyrinth and 6 more...
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people
authoress, arm candy, doppelganger, contender, portraitist, acolyte, hierophant, whistleblower, scrivener, querent, banshee, jester and 81 more...
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praveen kumar
hi, tradition, description, tolerate, embarrassment, organisational, although, contemporary, contender, intimidation, poverty, groom and 53 more...
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