Definition of Rival

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Definition of Rival

Rival

A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.

One who is in pursuit of the same object as another; one striving to reach or obtain something which another is attempting to obtain, and which one only can posses; a competitor; as, rivals in love; rivals for a crown.

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

To stand in competition with; to strive to gain some object in opposition to; as, to rival one in love.

To strive to equal or exel; to emulate.

To be in rivalry.

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Rival Quotations

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
Thomas Jefferson

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
Abraham Maslow

Bear patiently with a rival.
Ovid

The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.
Al Gore

Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal.
Grace Kelly

The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.
Robert Anton Wilson

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.
Wallace Stevens

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.
Henry A. Wallace

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.
Jean Racine

The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.
James Lovelock

Rival Translations

rival in Danish is konkurrere
rival in Dutch is meedingen, concurreren, wedijveren
rival in Finnish is kilpailla
rival in German is Rivale, Rivale, Konkurrent
rival in Italian is rivale
rival in Spanish is rival

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