Definition of contest

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Contest (n.) Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation.

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Backer :: Backer (n.) One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs a person or thing in a contest..
Chappion :: Chappion (n.) One who engages in any contest; esp. one who in ancient times contended in single combat in behalf of another's honor or rights; or one who acts or speaks in behalf of a person or a cause; a defender; an advocate; a hero.
Dimication :: Dimication (n.) A fight; contest.
Contestant :: Contestant (n.) One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another.
Race :: Race (n.) Hence: The act or process of running in competition; a contest of speed in any way, as in running, riding, driving, skating, rowing, sailing; in the plural, usually, a meeting for contests in the running of horses; as, he attended the races..
Politics :: Politics (n.) The management of a political party; the conduct and contests of parties with reference to political measures or the administration of public affairs; the advancement of candidates to office; in a bad sense, artful or dishonest management to secure the success of political candidates or parties; political trickery..
Contestation :: Contestation (n.) Proof by witness; attestation; testimony.
Pit :: Pit (v. t.) To introduce as an antagonist; to set forward for or in a contest; as, to pit one dog against another..
Altercation :: Altercation (n.) Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest.
Debate :: Debate (v. t.) To contend for in words or arguments; to strive to maintain by reasoning; to dispute; to contest; to discuss; to argue for and against.
Tie :: Tie (v. t.) To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with..
Match :: Match (v.) Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
Contest :: Contest (v. t.) To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute..
Defend :: Defend (v. t.) To deny the right of the plaintiff in regard to (the suit, or the wrong charged); to oppose or resist, as a claim at law; to contest, as a suit..
Condottiere :: Condottiere (n.) A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest..
Overmatch :: Overmatch (n.) One superior in power; also, an unequal match; a contest in which one of the opponents is overmatched..
Field :: Field (n.) A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting..
Contender :: Contender (n.) One who contends; a contestant.
Contestable :: Contestable (a.) Capable of being contested; debatable.
Cockfight :: Cockfight (n.) A match or contest of gamecocks.
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