Foeman vs Rival - What's the difference?

Foeman is a related term of rival.

As nouns the difference between foeman and rival

is that foeman is an enemy; a foe in battle; an armed or unarmed adversary; a demon while 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.

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.

foeman

English

Noun

(foemen)

An enemy; a foe in battle; an armed or unarmed adversary; a demon

*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , I.vii:

*:a snaggy Oke, which he had torne / Out of his mothers bowelles, and it made / His mortall mace, wherewith his foemen he dismayde.

*2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, p. 583:

*:‘I count no day as lived unless I have loved a woman, slain a foeman , and eaten a fine meal...and the days that I have lived are as numberless as the stars in the sky.’

* {{quote-book

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* {{quote-web

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rival

English

Noun

(en noun)

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.

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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)

If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, / The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.

Derived terms

* rivalry * archrival

Adjective

(-)

Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.

rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions

* Macaulay

The strenuous conflicts and alternate victories of two rival confederacies of statesmen.

Verb

To oppose or compete with.

to rival somebody in love

To be equal to or to surpass another.

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To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.

* Dryden

to rival thunder in its rapid course

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