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contestant
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun contestant has 2 senses
- contestant(n = noun.person) Array - a person who participates in competitions; Array is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
- contestant(n = noun.person) dissenter, dissident, objector, protester - a person who dissents from some established policy; Array is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
has particulars: agonist, athlete, jock, defaulter, entrant, long shot, also-ran, loser, opponent, opposite, opposition, outsider, participant, player, pothunter, qualifier, challenger, competition, competitor, contender, rival, starter, victor, winner, withdrawer
has particulars: co, conscientious objector, nonconformist, recusant, political dissident, nimby
CIDE DICTIONARY
contestant, n. [Cf. F. contestant.].
One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
contestant
adversary, battler, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, blade, bravo, brawler, bully, bullyboy, carouser, combatant, competitor, contender, corrival, cutup, disputant, duelist, emulator, enforcer, entrant, fencer, feuder, fighter, fighting cock, foilsman, frisker, frolicker, funmaker, gamboler, gamecock, gladiator, goon, gorilla, hatchet man, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, jouster, knight, merrymaker, militant, opponent, participant, playboy, player, pleasure-seeker, pleasurer, pleasurist, plug-ugly, quarreler, reveler, rioter, rival, rollicker, rough, rowdy, ruffian, sabreur, scrapper, scuffler, skylarker, 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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