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con·tender

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. rival, challenger, competitor, competition, contendernoun

    the contestant you hope to defeat

    "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing"

Wiktionary

  1. contendernoun

    Someone who competes with one or more other people

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Contendernoun

    Combatant; champion.

    Etymology: from contend.

    The contenders for it, look upon it as an undeniable truth. John Locke.

    Those disputes often arise in good earnest, where the two contenders do really believe the different propositions which they support. Isaac Watts, Improvement of the Mind, p. i. c. 10.

ChatGPT

  1. contender

    A contender is a person, team, or entity that competes with others and is considered likely to win or achieve success in a particular contest, competition, or any area of endeavor. It can also refer to someone who aims or strives for a particular position or status.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Contendernoun

    one who contends; a contestant

Wikidata

  1. Contender

    The International Contender is a single-handed high performance sailing dinghy, designed by Bob Miller, latterly known as Ben Lexcen, in 1967 as a possible successor to the Finn dinghy for Olympic competition. The Contender is recognized as an International Class by the International Sailing Federation, the governing body of sail boat racing, which administers the class rules.

Anagrams for contender »

  1. retconned

  2. recontend

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of contender in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of contender in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of contender in a Sentence

  1. Pat Riley:

    From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty.

  2. Jim Rutherford:

    The real advantage that Tampa has over most teams or all teams is Vasilevskiy, they’ve got the anchor there. They know what they’re getting every game, and as long as he’s what he is today — which should be for quite a long time — they’re going to be a contender.

  3. Josh Greenman:

    Andrew Yang is a leading contender to be mayor of New York City, and as commentators, Andrew Yang opponents and The News editorial board have recently pointed out, Andrew Yang's recently revealed there are major gaps in Andrew Yang knowledge of New York City politics and policy. Nor has Andrew Yang ever voted in a mayoral election, bill Bramhall cartoon is a comment on that, period, end of story. This is not a racial stereotype or racist caricature.

  4. Lindsay McDonald:

    Coming into the convention, we believed that Mike Stone was going to be a very good contender as president, we were thankful that Pastor Ed Litton was the one that did win.

  5. Michael Gove:

    Every contender in this race for the Conservative leadership should answer what they would do faced with the choice of either delaying Brexit or fighting a general election before Brexit is secured.

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