contest
Meanings
Noun
- Controversy; debate.
- Struggle for superiority; combat.
- A competition.
Verb
- To contend.
- To call into question; to oppose.
- To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.
- To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course of law.
Origin
- From French contester, from Old French, from Latin contestor.
Modern English dictionary
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