Dictionary Entry
contest
contest is a 7-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute.
- 2transitive verb
To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground.
- 3transitive verb
To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert.
- 4intransitive verb
To engage in contention, or emulation; to contend; to strive; to vie; to emulate; -- followed usually by with.
- 5noun
Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation.
- 6noun
Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife in arms; conflict; combat; encounter.
- 7noun
a struggle between rivals
- 8noun
an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants
Synonyms
- 9verb
to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation
"They contested the outcome of the race"
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