Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of contest is as below...

Engage :: Engage (v. t.) To enter into contest with; to encounter; to bring to conflict.

Candidate :: Candidate (n.) One who offers himself, or is put forward by others, as a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office, privilege, or honor; as, a candidate for the office of governor; a candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors..

Warm :: Warm (superl.) Violent; vehement; furious; excited; passionate; as, a warm contest; a warm debate..

Vexed :: Vexed (a.) Much debated or contested; causing discussion; as, a vexed question..

Fray :: Fray (n.) Affray; broil; contest; combat.

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To hold out in a race or other contest; as, a horse stays well..

Contek :: Contek (n.) Quarrel; contention; contest.

Decline :: Decline (v. t.) To put or turn aside; to turn off or away from; to refuse to undertake or comply with; reject; to shun; to avoid; as, to decline an offer; to decline a contest; he declined any participation with them..

Score :: Score (n.) The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket..

Contest :: Contest (v. t.) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground..

Plunge :: Plunge (v. i.) To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations..

Contest :: Contest (v. t.) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert..

Strive :: Strive (v. i.) To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest; -- followed by against or with before the person or thing opposed; as, strive against temptation; strive for the truth..

Pancratiast :: Pancratiast (n.) One who engaged in the contests of the pancratium.

Athlete :: Athlete (n.) One fitted for, or skilled in, intellectual contests; as, athletes of debate..

Contestant :: Contestant (n.) One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another.

Bet :: Bet (n.) That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge; a wager..

Dimication :: Dimication (n.) A fight; contest.

Agony :: Agony (n.) Violent contest or striving.

Yield :: Yield (v. i.) To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb.

Random Fonts

Most Popular