rival
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin rīvālis (literally “person using the same stream as another”), from rīvus (“small stream, brook”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -aɪvəl
Noun[edit]
rival (plural rivals)
- 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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2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:
- 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.
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Chris is my biggest rival in the 400-metre race.
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- Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another.
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As a social historian, he has no rival.
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- (obsolete) One having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.
- William Shakespeare
- If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, / The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.
- William Shakespeare
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Adjective[edit]
rival (not comparable)
- Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.
- rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions
- Macaulay
- The strenuous conflicts and alternate victories of two rival confederacies of statesmen.
Verb[edit]
rival (third-person singular simple present rivals, present participle rivalling or rivaling, simple past and past participle rivalled or rivaled)
- (transitive) To oppose or compete with.
- to rival somebody in love
- To be equal to, or match, or to surpass another.
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1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess[1]:
- 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, […].
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- To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.
- Dryden
- to rival thunder in its rapid course
- Dryden
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Catalan[edit]
Adjective[edit]
rival (masculine and feminine plural rivals)
Derived terms[edit]
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Noun[edit]
rival m, f (plural rivals)
Further reading[edit]
- “rival” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin rīvālis, literally ‘person using the same stream as another’, from rīvus (“small stream, brook”). Unrelated to rive.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
rival (feminine singular rivale, masculine plural rivaux, feminine plural rivales)
- rival (attributively)
Noun[edit]
rival m (plural rivaux, feminine rivale)
Further reading[edit]
- “rival” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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German[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
rival (not comparable)
- (economics, of a good) rivalrous
- 2012, Michael Goldhammer, Geistiges Eigentum und Eigentumstheorie, Mohr Siebeck, page 196:
- Als zweites Argument gegen die Möglichkeit von geistigem Eigentum wird häufig vorgebracht, dass immaterielle Güter ihrer Natur nach nicht rival seien […]
- As a second argument against the possibility of intellectual property, it is often brought forward that immaterial goods are not rivalrous by nature
- Als zweites Argument gegen die Möglichkeit von geistigem Eigentum wird häufig vorgebracht, dass immaterielle Güter ihrer Natur nach nicht rival seien […]
- 2012, Michael Goldhammer, Geistiges Eigentum und Eigentumstheorie, Mohr Siebeck, page 196:
Declension[edit]
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | er ist rival | sie ist rival | es ist rival | sie sind rival | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | rivaler | rivale | rivales | rivale |
genitive | rivalen | rivaler | rivalen | rivaler | |
dative | rivalem | rivaler | rivalem | rivalen | |
accusative | rivalen | rivale | rivales | rivale | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der rivale | die rivale | das rivale | die rivalen |
genitive | des rivalen | der rivalen | des rivalen | der rivalen | |
dative | dem rivalen | der rivalen | dem rivalen | den rivalen | |
accusative | den rivalen | die rivale | das rivale | die rivalen | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein rivaler | eine rivale | ein rivales | (keine) rivalen |
genitive | eines rivalen | einer rivalen | eines rivalen | (keiner) rivalen | |
dative | einem rivalen | einer rivalen | einem rivalen | (keinen) rivalen | |
accusative | einen rivalen | eine rivale | ein rivales | (keine) rivalen |
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin rivalis, via French rival
Noun[edit]
rival m (definite singular rivalen, indefinite plural rivaler, definite plural rivalene)
- a rival
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “rival” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin rivalis, via French rival
Noun[edit]
rival m (definite singular rivalen, indefinite plural rivalar, definite plural rivalane)
- a rival
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “rival” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese[edit]
Noun[edit]
rival m, f (plural rivais)
- rival (competitor with the same objective)
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Adjective[edit]
rival m, f (plural rivais, comparable)
- rival (standing in competition)
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Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
rìvāl m (Cyrillic spelling рѝва̄л)
Declension[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Adjective[edit]
rival (plural rivales)
Noun[edit]
rival m, f (plural rivales)
Synonyms[edit]
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