challenger

CEFRB2

/ˈt͡ʃælɪn(d)ʒə/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A person or team that competes against another.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    One who challenges.

Examples

  • He's reigning champion, and no young challenger is going to take it away from him.

  • The flyweight champion contended with a strong challenger.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
4

Also pronounced

  • /ˈt͡ʃælənd͡ʒəɹ/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. One who confronts or opposes; a confronter, an opposer.

  2. One who plays against the current champion of a contest or game in hopes of winning and becoming the new champion.

  3. One who brings a legal claim; a claimant, a plaintiff; also, one who accuses; an accuser.

More examples

In context

  • One child stood as king of the hill, and tried to withstand the pushes and shoves of his challengers.

  • The champion hopes to defeat his new challenger in the game to remain undefeated.

  • challengers of traditional attitudes

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Origin

noun

Inherited from Middle English chalengere, chalangeour, chalenger (“one who causes injury, or makes false charges or slanderous statements; one who disputes, disputant, objector; claimant”), and then partly from both of the following: * From Middle English chalengen (“to accuse; to accuse falsely or maliciously, slander; to treat unjustly, wrong; to dispute, object; to make a claim or demand; to rebuke, scold; to issue a challenge to; etc.”) + -er, -ere (suffix forming agent nouns). Chalengen is derived from Anglo-Norman chalenger, and Old French chalenger, chalongier (“to challenge, dispute; to claim; etc.”) (modern French challenger), from Late Latin calumniāre, the second-person singular...