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contender
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun contender has 1 sense
- contender(n = noun.person) challenger, competition, competitor, rival - the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing" is a kind of contestant
has particulars: champ, champion, title-holder, comer, finalist, enemy, foe, favorite, favourite, front-runner, king, queen, world-beater, runner-up, second best, scratch, semifinalist, street fighter, tier, tilter
Derived form verb contend5
THESAURUS
contender
battler, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, blade, bravo, brawler, bully, bullyboy, combatant, competitor, contestant, corrival, disputant, duelist, emulator, enforcer, entrant, fencer, feuder, fighter, fighting cock, foilsman, gamecock, gladiator, goon, gorilla, hatchet man, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, jouster, knight, militant, player, plug-ugly, quarreler, rioter, rival, rough, rowdy, ruffian, sabreur, scrapper, scuffler, squabbler, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, the field, thug, tilter, tough, tussler, vier, wrangler
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