Question 1 · Quick check
rival
CEFRC1
/ˈɹaɪvəl/
noun · verb
Türkçe translations
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In plain English
- 01
noun
A person or group competing with another for the same goal.
- 02
verb
To be as good as or compete closely with someone or something.
Examples
Our team competed with a powerful rival.
There are rival factions within the administration.
At a glance
Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 2
- Citations
- 5
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsOne having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.
Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another.
A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing. Defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor.
More examples
In contextWe had been rival lovers at one time.
As a social historian, he has no rival.
Chris is my biggest rival in the 400-metre race.
Quick test
Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.
Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.
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Origin
noun
Learned borrowing from Latin rīvālis (literally “person using the same stream as another”). By surface analysis, Latin rīvus + -al.