What does challenger mean?
Definitions for challenger
ˈtʃæl ɪn dʒərchal·len·ger
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word challenger.
Princeton's WordNet
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
challengernoun
One who challenges.
One child stood as king of the hill, and tried to withstand the pushes and shoves of his challengers.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Challengernoun
Etymology: from challenge.
Young man, have you challenged Charles the wrestler? ——
No, fair princess; he is the general challenger. William Shakespeare, As you like it.Death was denounc’d;
He took the summons, void of fear,
And unconcernedly cast his eyes around,
As if to find and dare the griesly challenger. Dryden.Whose worth
Stood challenger on mount of all the age,
For her perfections. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.Earnest challengers there are of trial, by some publick disputation. Richard Hooker, Preface.
ChatGPT
challenger
A challenger is a person, team, or entity that contests or competes against another with the aim of displacing them or winning a title, position, or competition. In a broader context, it could also refer to something such as a situation or a problem that tests one's abilities or poses a significant difficulty.
Webster Dictionary
Challengernoun
one who challenges
Wikidata
Challenger
Challenger is a video game developed and published by Hudson Soft in 1985 for the Nintendo Famicom.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
CHALLENGER
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Challenger is ranked #32169 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Challenger surname appeared 717 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Challenger.
48.9% or 351 total occurrences were White.
39.3% or 282 total occurrences were Black.
8.5% or 61 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
2.5% or 18 total occurrences were of two or more races.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of challenger in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of challenger in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of challenger in a Sentence
Joachim Hunold founded Air Berlin and gave it its meaning. He positioned it as a challenger and that was fantastic, we cannot be a smaller version of Lufthansa.
We have gotten close with them over the years, they are doing a lot in retail, they are building a pretty large challenger bank and that is something we focus on.
It’s not easy to endorse a challenger over a colleague in the House of Representatives, especially when that colleague is a member of your party.
First is a deal in the UK, where combining Virgin Media with O2 seems like a no-brainer on paper. That would create the opportunity to build a smartly-branded converged challenger to BT.
We are, in many countries, still a challenger, so for us, aggregating accounts is certainly a way forward to access more customers, we are not doing anything specifically in France as such but we are working on a European development.
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- منافسArabic
- предизвикателBulgarian
- udfordrerDanish
- Herausforderin, HerausfordererGerman
- διεκδικητήςGreek
- kontestantoEsperanto
- desafiadorSpanish
- haastajaFinnish
- challengeurFrench
- दावेदारHindi
- kihívóHungarian
- penantangIndonesian
- sfidanteItalian
- המתמודדHebrew
- 挑戦者Japanese
- AemulatorLatin
- utfordrerNorwegian
- pretendentPolish
- desafiadorPortuguese
- pretendentă, pretendent, persoană care contestă cevaRomanian
- претендентRussian
- utmanareSwedish
- ผู้ท้าชิงThai
- meydan okuyucuTurkish
- چیلنجUrdu
- kẻ thách thứcVietnamese
- 挑战者Chinese
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