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Definition of Rival
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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. Related Definitions:
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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 Bear patiently with a rival. Ovid Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal. Grace Kelly 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 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 |
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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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