Definition of Contest

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Contest

To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute.

To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground.

To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert.

To engage in contention, or emulation; to contend; to strive; to vie; to emulate; -- followed usually by with.

Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation.

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

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Contest Quotations

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
P. J. O'Rourke

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
Lord Byron

Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!
Chris Rock

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
Epictetus

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Ambrose Bierce

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
Samuel Adams

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.
Frank Sinatra

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
Alexander Pope

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
George Eliot

Contest Translations

contest in Afrikaans is kompetisie, wedstryd
contest in Dutch is match, wedstrijd, concours
contest in French is concours, renauder
contest in German is anfechten, Wettkampf, Wettkampf, Wettbewerb
contest in Italian is contestare
contest in Latin is certamen
contest in Spanish is controvertir, concurso, protestar

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