/ˈɹaɪvəl/
OriginLearned borrowing from Latin rīvālis (literally “person using the same stream as another”).
- 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.
“Chris is my biggest rival in the 400-metre race.”
“Every day is like survival / You're my lover, not my rival”
“The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you[…] "share the things yo”
- Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another.
“As a social historian, he has no rival.”
- obsoleteOne having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.
“If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, / The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.”
- not-comparableHaving the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.
“rival lovers”
“rival claims or pretensions”
“The strenuous conflicts and alternate victories of two rival confederacies of statesmen.”
- transitiveTo oppose or compete with.
“to rival somebody in love”
- To be equal to, or match, or to surpass another.
“But the Waverley is still the best-placed station of any British city, and gives the arriving stranger a first impression rivalled in Europe only by the exclusively watery station approach at Venice.”
“The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].”
- To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.
“to rival thunder in its rapid course”
Formsrivals(plural) · rivals(present, singular, third-person) · rivaling(US, participle, present) · rivalling(UK, participle, present) · rivaled(US, participle, past) · rivaled(US, past) · rivalled(UK, participle, past) · rivalled(UK, past)