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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. Related Definitions:
Altercation, Argument, Arms, As, By, Call, Claim, Combat, Competition, Conflict, Contend, Contention, Contested, Controversy, Controvert, Course, Debate, Defend, Defense, Dispute, Earnest, Earnestly, Emulate, Emulation, Encounter, Engage, Every, Followed, For, Ground, Hold, In, Inch, Law, Litigation, Maintain, Make, Of, Oppose, Or, Question, Resist, Strife, Strive, Struggle, Subject, Suit, Superiority, The, To, Victory, Vie, With |
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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 |
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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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