Rival vs Competition - What's the difference?
rival | competition |
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.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
, volume=189, issue=2, page=27, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another.
(obsolete) One having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.
* (William Shakespeare)
Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.
* Macaulay
To oppose or compete with.
To be equal to or to surpass another.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.
* Dryden
(label) The action of competing.
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, passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
(label) A contest for a prize or award.
The competitors in such a contest.
As nouns the difference between rival and competition
is that rival is 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 while competition is (label) the action of competing.As an adjective rival
is having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.As a verb rival
is to oppose or compete with.rival
English
Noun
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- If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, / The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.
Derived terms
* rivalry * archrivalAdjective
(-)- rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions
- The strenuous conflicts and alternate victories of two rival confederacies of statesmen.
Verb
- to rival somebody in love
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- to rival thunder in its rapid course