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rival

English

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Etymology

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From Latin rīvālis (literally “person using the same stream as another”), from rīvus (“small stream, brook”).

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɹaɪvəl/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪvəl

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rival (plural rivals)

  1. 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.
  2. Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another.
    As a social historian, he has no rival.
  3. (obsolete) One having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.

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rival (not comparable)

  1. Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.
    rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions

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rival (third-person singular simple present rivals, present participle rivalling or rivaling, simple past and past participle rivalled or rivaled)

  1. (transitive) To oppose or compete with.
    to rival somebody in love
  2. 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, […] .
  3. 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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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin rīvālis.

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rival m or f (masculine and feminine plural rivals)

  1. rival

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rival m or f by sense (plural rivals)

  1. rival

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Borrowed from German Rival.

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rival m anim (female equivalent rivalka)

  1. rival, competitor, opponent
    sportovní rivalové. ― sports rivals.

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Declension of rival (hard masculine animate)
singular plural
nominative rival rivalové
genitive rivala rivalů
dative rivalovi, rivalu rivalům
accusative rivala rivaly
vocative rivale rivalové
locative rivalovi, rivalu rivalech
instrumental rivalem rivaly
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French

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Etymology

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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)

  1. (relational) rival

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rival m (plural rivaux, feminine rivale)

  1. rival

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  • → Norwegian Bokmål: rival

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German

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  • IPA(key): [ʁiˈvaːl]
  • Hyphenation: ri‧val

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rival (strong nominative masculine singular rivaler, not comparable)

  1. (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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Positive forms of rival (uncomparable)
number & gender singular plural
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

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Etymology

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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)

  1. a rival

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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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)

  1. a rival

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Portuguese

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  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: ri‧val

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rival m or f by sense (plural rivais)

  1. rival (competitor with the same objective)
    Synonyms: adversário, oponente

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rival m or f (plural rivais)

  1. rival (standing in competition)
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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French rival, from Latin rivalis.

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rival m (plural rivali)

  1. rival

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Declension of rival
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) rival rivalul (niște) rivali rivalii
genitive/dative (unui) rival rivalului (unor) rivali rivalilor
vocative rivalule rivalilor

Serbo-Croatian

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  • IPA(key): /rǐʋaːl/
  • Hyphenation: ri‧val

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rìvāl m (Cyrillic spelling рѝва̄л)

  1. rival, adversary

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Declension of rival
singular plural
nominative rìvāl rivali
genitive rivála riválā
dative rivalu rivalima
accusative rivala rivale
vocative rivale rivali
locative rivalu rivalima
instrumental rivalom rivalima

Spanish

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Etymology

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From Latin rīvālis.

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  • IPA(key): /riˈbal/ [riˈβ̞al]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: ri‧val

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rival m or f (masculine and feminine plural rivales)

  1. rival
  2. adverse
    Synonym: adverso

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rival m or f by sense (plural rivales)

  1. rival
    Synonyms: adversario, antagonista, competidor, contrario, oponente

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Swedish

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Etymology

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From Latin rivalis, via French rival.

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rival c

  1. rival

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Declension of rival 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative rival rivalen rivaler rivalerna
Genitive rivals rivalens rivalers rivalernas
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