contestation
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌkɒn.tɛsˈteɪ.ʃən/, [ˌkɒn.tɛsˈteɪ.ʃn̩]
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˌkɑn.tɛsˈteɪ.ʃən/, [ˌkɑn.tɛsˈteɪ.ʃn̩]
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˌkɔn.tesˈtæɪ.ʃən/, [ˌkɔn.tesˈtæɪ.ʃn̩]
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
editcontestation (countable and uncountable, plural contestations)
- The act of contesting; emulation
- The act of challenging or disputing a claim or idea.
- 2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of "the Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment:
- Contempt and loathing for body and nature are central to the operations of white male grievance, and any contestation of these politics will require us to challenge the somatophobia and ecophobia with which they are bound up.
- Proof by witness; attestation; testimony.
Translations
editThe act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute
Anagrams
editFrench
editPronunciation
editNoun
editcontestation f (plural contestations)
Further reading
edit- “contestation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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