challenge

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English

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Etymology

From Middle English chalenge, variant with palatalization of Middle English kalange (“an accusation, claim”), from Old French chalenge, chalonge, palatalized Central French variants of Old Northern French calenge, calonge (see Continental Norman calengier), from Latin calumnia (“a false accusation, calumny”), from Proto-Indo-European *kēl-, *ḱēl- (“invocation; to beguile, feign, charm, cajole, deceive”). Cognate with Old English hōl (“calumny”). Doublet of calumny.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃæl.ɪnd͡ʒ/, /ˈt͡ʃæl.ənd͡ʒ/
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Noun

challenge (plural challenges)

  1. A confrontation; a dare.
    1. An antagonization or instigation intended to convince a person to perform an action they otherwise would not.
      • 2013 November 30, Paul Davis, “Letters: Say it as simply as possible”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8864:
        Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?
    2. A bid to overcome something.
      a challenge to the king's authority
      • 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
        For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.
    3. (sports) An attempt to take possession; a tackle
      • 2011 October 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Wolverhampton 1-2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:
        Argentine midfielder Jonas Gutierrez added a superb second when he surged past four challenges to fire in low.
    4. A summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
    5. The act of a sentry in halting a person and demanding the countersign, or (by extension) the action of a computer system demanding a password, etc.
    6. An attempt to have a work of literature restricted or removed from a public library or school curriculum.
  2. A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that difficulty.
  3. (law) A procedure or action.
    1. (law, rare) A judge's interest in the result of the case for which he or she should not be allowed to sit the case, e.g. a conflict of interest.
      Consanguinity in direct line is a challenge for a judge when he or she is sitting cases.
    2. The act of appealing a ruling or decision of a court of administrative agency.
    3. The act of seeking to remove a judge, arbitrator or other judicial or semi-judicial figure for reasons of alleged bias or incapacity.
      We're still waiting to hear how the court rules on our challenge of the arbitrator based on conflict of interest.
    4. (US) An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered.
  4. (hunting) The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → French: challenge (orthographic)
  • → Japanese: チャレンジ
  • → Russian: челлендж (čellendž)

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Verb

challenge (third-person singular simple present challenges, present participle challenging, simple past and past participle challenged)

  1. (transitive) To invite (someone) to take part in a competition.
    We challenged the boys next door to a game of football.
  2. (transitive) To dare (someone).
    • 1689 December (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], “Who Heir?”, in Two Treatises of Government: […], London: […] Awnsham Churchill, […], →OCLC, book I, paragraph 149, page 194:
      [...] For I challenge any Man to make any pretence to Power by Right of Fatherhood, either intelligible or poſſible in any one, otherwiſe, then either as Adams heir, or as Progenitor over his own deſcendants, naturally ſprung from him.
  3. (transitive) To dispute (something).
    to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation
    • 2022 August 10, Dr Mike Esbester, “New understandings from old incidents”, in RAIL, number 963, page 58:
      In the April 2020 Roade fatality, the worker who died "was reputedly in the habit of walking on the line when he didn't need to". Tragically, no one challenged him about it.
  4. (law, transitive) To make a formal objection to a juror.
  5. (transitive) To be difficult or challenging for.
    • 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 487:
      Before moving onto the content of Hobson-Jobson, an explication of the publication history is necessary since this has clearly challenged many commentators.
  6. (obsolete, transitive) To claim as due; to demand as a right.
  7. (obsolete, transitive) To censure; to blame.
  8. (military, transitive) To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines).
    The sentinel challenged us with "Who goes there?"
  9. (US, transitive) To object to the reception of the vote of, e.g. on the ground that the person is not qualified as a voter.
  10. (Canada, US, transitive) To take (a final exam) in order to get credit for a course without taking it.
    • 1996, Senate Legislative Record ... Legislature State of Maine‎[1]:
      I mean if you go in and want to challenge an exam it cost you half of your course money. If you don't pass the exam, that money is credited toward taking the course. What have you got to lose to challenge an exam, or do a competency exam?
    • 1997, Carol Gino, The Nurse's Story‎[2]:
      The only time I went to class was to challenge an exam. My marks were good. But there was one class I never missed, “Nursing Process and the New Philosophy in Nursing.”
    • 2006, Diana Huggins, Exam/cram 70-291: Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure‎[3], page 2:
      Although we strongly recommend that you keep practicing until your scores top the 75% mark, 80% would be a good goal, to give yourself some margin for error in a real exam situation[…]. After you hit that point, you should be ready to challenge the exam.

Synonyms

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French

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English challenge, from Old French chalonge, from Latin calumnia. Doublet of calomnie.

Pronunciation

Noun

challenge m (plural challenges)

  1. challenge

Further reading

Turkish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English challenge.

Pronunciation

Noun

challenge (definite accusative challengeı, plural challengelar)

  1. challenge
    Synonym: mücadele

Declension

Inflection
Nominative challenge
Definite accusative challengeı
Singular Plural
Nominative challenge challengelar
Definite accusative challengeı challengeları
Dative challengea challengelara
Locative challengeda challengelarda
Ablative challengedan challengelardan
Genitive challengeın challengeların
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