contest

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/ˈkɒn.tɛst/

noun · verb

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01
noun
A competition in which people try to win.
02
verb
To challenge a decision or compete against someone.

Examples

I would often take part in an English speech contest in my school days.
It is probable that he will win the speech contest.

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 2
Citations: 4
Synonyms: 5

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/ˈkɔntɛst/

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noun

Extra meanings

A competition.
Struggle for superiority; combat.
Controversy; debate.

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In context

I will contest for the open seat on the board.
The child entered the spelling contest.
The rival contested the dictator's re-election because of claims of voting irregularities.

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The annual baking blank will take place in the town square next Saturday.

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Of man, who dares in pomp with Jove contest?
1725, Homer, “Book IV”, in [Elijah Fenton], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC
Your question betrays, I suspect, a somewhat naive vision of the world as much smaller (and much more homogenized) than it could possibly be — a vision that one of my "personal" visions, as you'll find it in some of my recent science fiction, is specifically and heartedly in contest with.
1986, Samuel R. Delany, Joseph Beam, “The Possibility of Possibilities”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 207
Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequently repeated, few more contested than this.
1848, John Daniel Morell, Historical and Critical View of the Speculative Philosophy of Europe in the Nineteenth Century
On the other hand, the nationalitarian phenomenon is one in which the struggle against the imperialist powers of occupation has as its object, beyond the clearing of the national territory, the independence and sovereignty of the national State, uprooting in depth the positions of the ex-colonial power— the reconquest of the power of decision in all domains of national life, the prelude to that reconquest of identity which is at the heart of the renaissance undertaken on the basis of fundamental national demands, and ceaselessly contested, by every means available, on every level, and notably on the internal level'.
1981, Anouar Abdel-Malek, Social Dialectics: Nation and Revolution, page 13

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Origin

noun

PIE word *tréyes From French contester, from Old French, from Latin contestor (“to call to witness”).

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The annual baking blank— will take place in the town square next Saturday.

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noun

The annual baking blank will take place in the town square next Saturday.