rival
English
Etymology
From Latin rīvālis (literally “person using the same stream as another”), from rīvus (“small stream, brook”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪvəl
Noun
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.
- 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.
- Chris is my biggest rival in the 400-metre race.
- Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another.
- As a social historian, he has no rival.
- (obsolete) One having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, / The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.
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Adjective
rival (not comparable)
- Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.
- rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions
- (Can we date this quote by Macaulay and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- The strenuous conflicts and alternate victories of two rival confederacies of statesmen.
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Verb
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.
- 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, […].
- To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.
- (Can we date this quote by Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- to rival thunder in its rapid course
- (Can we date this quote by Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
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Catalan
Adjective
rival m or f (masculine and feminine plural rivals)
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Noun
rival m or f (plural rivals)
Further reading
- “rival” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin rīvālis, literally ‘person using the same stream as another’, from rīvus (“small stream, brook”). Unrelated to rive.
Pronunciation
Adjective
rival (feminine rivale, masculine plural rivaux, feminine plural rivales)
- rival (attributively)
Noun
rival m (plural rivaux, feminine rivale)
Further reading
- “rival”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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German
Pronunciation
Adjective
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:
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Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin rivalis, via French rival
Noun
rival m (definite singular rivalen, indefinite plural rivaler, definite plural rivalene)
- a rival
Derived terms
References
- “rival” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin rivalis, via French rival
Noun
rival m (definite singular rivalen, indefinite plural rivalar, definite plural rivalane)
- a rival
Derived terms
References
- “rival” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Noun
rival m or f (plural rivais)
- rival (competitor with the same objective)
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Adjective
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- rival (standing in competition)
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Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
Noun
rìvāl m (Cyrillic spelling рѝва̄л)
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
rival m or f (masculine and feminine plural rivales)
Noun
rival m or f (plural rivales)
- rival
- Synonyms: adversario, antagonista, competidor, contrario, oponente
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “rival”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Etymology
From Latin rivalis, via French rival.
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Audio: (file)
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rival c
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Declension of rival | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | rival | rivalen | rivaler | rivalerna |
Genitive | rivals | rivalens | rivalers | rivalernas |
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