Definition of contest

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Contest (n.) Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife in arms; conflict; combat; encounter..

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Candidate :: Candidate (n.) One who offers himself, or is put forward by others, as a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office, privilege, or honor; as, a candidate for the office of governor; a candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors..
Match :: Match (v.) A contest to try strength or skill, or to determine superiority; an emulous struggle..
Pancratium :: Pancratium (n.) An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.
Dispute :: Dispute (v. i.) Contest; struggle; quarrel.
Plate :: Plate (n.) A prize giving to the winner in a contest.
Winning :: Winning (n.) The act of obtaining something, as in a contest or by competition..
Worst :: Worst (a.) To gain advantage over, in contest or competition; to get the better of; to defeat; to overthrow; to discomfit..
Quarrel :: Quarrel (n.) A breach of concord, amity, or obligation; a falling out; a difference; a disagreement; an antagonism in opinion, feeling, or conduct; esp., an angry dispute, contest, or strife; a brawl; an altercation; as, he had a quarrel with his father about expenses..
Condottiere :: Condottiere (n.) A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest..
Warfare :: Warfare (n.) Military service; military life; contest carried on by enemies; hostilities; war.
Incontested :: Incontested (a.) Not contested.
Lose :: Lose (v. i.) To suffer loss, disadvantage, or defeat; to be worse off, esp. as the result of any kind of contest..
Wager :: Wager (v. t.) To hazard on the issue of a contest, or on some question that is to be decided, or on some casualty; to lay; to stake; to bet..
Conflict :: Conflict (v.) A strife for the mastery; hostile contest; battle; struggle; fighting.
Sharpshooting :: Sharpshooting (n.) A shooting with great precision and effect; hence, a keen contest of wit or argument..
Neutrality :: Neutrality (n.) The state or quality of being neutral; the condition of being unengaged in contests between others; state of taking no part on either side; indifference.
Altercation :: Altercation (n.) Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest.
Beat :: Beat (v. t.) To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass..
Neutral :: Neutral (n.) A person or a nation that takes no part in a contest between others; one who is neutral.
Cockfight :: Cockfight (n.) A match or contest of gamecocks.
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