rival
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From Latin rīvālis (literally “person using the same stream as another”), from rīvus (“small stream, brook”).
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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.
- Chris is my biggest rival in the 400-metre race.
- 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.
- 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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rival (not comparable)
- Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.
- rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 1, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- The strenuous conflicts and alternate victories of two rival confederacies of statesmen.
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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.
- 1941 January, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The Scottish Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 1:
- But the Waverley is still the best-placed station of any British city, and gives the arriving stranger a first impression rivalled in Europe only by the exclusively watery station approach at Venice.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- 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.
- 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- to rival thunder in its rapid course
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rival m or f (masculine and feminine plural rivals)
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rival m or f by sense (plural rivals)
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- “rival” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “rival”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “rival” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “rival” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
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rival m anim (feminine rivalka)
- rival, competitor, opponent
- sportovní rivalové. ― sports rivals.
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Borrowed from Latin rīvālis (literally “person using the same stream as another”), from rīvus (“small stream, brook”). Unrelated to rive.
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rival (feminine rivale, masculine plural rivaux, feminine plural rivales)
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rival m (plural rivaux, feminine rivale)
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- → Norwegian Bokmål: rival
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- “rival”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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rival (strong nominative masculine singular rivaler, 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
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number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
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
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From French rival (“rival”), from Latin rīvālis (“of or pertaining to a brook; rival”), from rīvus (“brook; channel”), from Proto-Italic *rīwos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃riH-wó-s, from *h₃reyH- (“to move, flow”), from *h₃er- (“to move, stir”).
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rival m (definite singular rivalen, indefinite plural rivaler, definite plural rivalene)
- a rival
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- “rival” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
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From Latin rivalis, via French rival.
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rival m (definite singular rivalen, indefinite plural rivalar, definite plural rivalane)
- a rival
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- “rival” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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rival m or f by sense (plural rivais)
- rival (competitor with the same objective)
- Synonyms: adversário, oponente
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rival m or f (plural rivais)
- rival (standing in competition)
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Borrowed from French rival, from Latin rivalis.
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rival m (plural rivali)
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rìvāl m (Cyrillic spelling рѝва̄л)
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rival m or f (masculine and feminine plural rivales)
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rival m or f by sense (plural rivales)
- rival
- Synonyms: adversario, antagonista, competidor, contrario, oponente
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- “rival”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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From Latin rivalis, via French rival.
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rival c
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Nominative | rival | rivalen | rivaler | rivalerna |
Genitive | rivals | rivalens | rivalers | rivalernas |
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- rival in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
- rival in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)