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Definition of Contest
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

You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
Rowan Atkinson

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

It was a hole in one contest and I had a three.
Abe Lemons

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

I'm not out here to win a beauty contest.
Kirk Gibson

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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