Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To strive for victory or superiority; contend. See Synonyms at rival.
- v. Archaic To offer in competition; match.
- v. Obsolete To wager or bet.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In the old games of gleek, primero, etc., to wager on the value of one's hand against an opponent.
- To strive for superiority; endeavor to be equal or superior (to); contend; rival: followed by with, and said of persons or things.
- To offer as a stake, as in cardplaying; play as for a wager with.
- To put or bring into competition; bandy; try to outdo in; contend with respect to.
- n. A contest for superiority, especially a close or keen contest; a contention in the way of rivalry; hence, sometimes, a state where it would be difficult to decide as to which party had the advantage; also, a challenge; a wager.
- n. Life.
Wiktionary
- v. intransitive To rival; to struggle for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something.
- v. transitive, archaic To rival (something), etc.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To stake a sum upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See revie.
- v. To strive for superiority; to contend; to use emulous effort, as in a race, contest, or competition.
- v. obsolete To stake; to wager.
- v. obsolete To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy.
- n. obsolete A contest for superiority; competition; rivalry; strife; also, a challenge; a wager.
WordNet 3.0
- v. compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others
Etymologies
- From French envier. (Wiktionary)
- Short for Middle English envien, from Old French envier, from Latin invītāre, to invite, give occasion for; see invite. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Ohio State and Penn State could again vie for the conference championship, and a Nov. 7 date in Happy Valley could determine the outcome.”
“More often places and their names are representative of abstract ideas: America, Vietnam, the Riviera which, as Godard points out, contains the word vie for "life", Las Vegas.”
“II. i.310 (393,9) [kill on kiss She vy's so fast] I know not that the word vie has any construction that will suit this place; we may easily read,”
“The most recent term was pur autre vie, which is defined as:”
“The story in all its intricacies may best be described as the vie amoureuse of Count D'Elmont, a hero with none of the wit, but with all the gallantry of the rakes of late Restoration comedy.”
“Carole James now must survive where "alpha males" vie "for control of a baboon group.”
“trouver des clients ou les laisser nous trouver, expliquer au monde ce que l'on fait, trouver un équilibre entre travail et "vie" pas évident quand on a fait de sa passion son métier, ou encore gérer l'administratif qui accompagne la vie réseautée que nous vivons aujourd'hui.”
“At dinner parties during the rest of the year, they vie to one-up each other with stories of malaria, harrowing airplane flights and close calls with venomous snakes in what most of their compatriots would regard as Third World hell-holes.”
The Wall Street Journal: For Italians, Summer Starts at the Beach
“While Dan Donovan of Staten Island, Robert Johnson of the Bronx and Richard Brown of Queens all confirmed this week that they would vie for another four years in office, none of the three has done significant fund raising to this point, according to new filings with the state Board of Elections.”
“The other question is whether the big banks that already have big businesses originating mortgages will also be allowed to vie for one of the securitization charters.”
The Washington Post: D.C. area will take hit if Wall Street steals away with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
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kamtsatka C'est la vie. Totally. Nov 15, 2008