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RI'VAL, n. [L. rivalis; Heb. to contend, to strive. See Raffle.]

1. One who is in pursuit of the same object as another; one striving to reach or obtain something which another is attempting to obtain, and which one only can possess; a competitor; as rivals in love; rivals for a crown. Love will not patiently bear a rival.

2. One striving to equal or exceed another in excellence; as two rivals in eloquence.

3. An antagonist; a competitor in any pursuit or strife.

RI'VAL, a. Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority; as rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions.

Equal in years and rival in renown.

RI'VAL, v.t.

1. To stand in competition with; to strive to gain the object which another is contending for; as, to rival one in love.

2. To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.

To rival thunder in its rapid course.

RI'VAL, v.i. To be competitors. [Not in use.]



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RI'VAL, n. [L. rivalis; Heb. to contend, to strive. See Raffle.]

1. One who is in pursuit of the same object as another; one striving to reach or obtain something which another is attempting to obtain, and which one only can possess; a competitor; as rivals in love; rivals for a crown. Love will not patiently bear a rival.

2. One striving to equal or exceed another in excellence; as two rivals in eloquence.

3. An antagonist; a competitor in any pursuit or strife.

RI'VAL, a. Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority; as rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions.

Equal in years and rival in renown.

RI'VAL, v.t.

1. To stand in competition with; to strive to gain the object which another is contending for; as, to rival one in love.

2. To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.

To rival thunder in its rapid course.

RI'VAL, v.i. To be competitors. [Not in use.]


RI'VAL, a.

Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority; as, rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions. Equal in years and rival in renown. – Dryden.


RI'VAL, n. [L. rivalis; Fr. and Sp. rival; It. rivale; Ir. rioblach; Heb. רוב, to contend, to strive; Dan. rives, to strive; Sp. rifa, strife, raffle; rifar, to dispute, quarrel or raffle, and to split a sail. Qu. to rive or rip. See Raffle.]

  1. One who is in pursuit of the same object as another; one striving to reach or obtain something which another is attempting to obtain, and which one only can possess; a competitor; as, rivals in love; rivals for a crown. Love will not patiently bear a rival.
  2. One striving to equal or exceed another in excellence; as, two rivals in eloquence.
  3. An antagonist; a competitor in any pursuit or strife.

RI'VAL, v.i.

To be competitors. [Not in use.] Shak.


RI'VAL, v.t.

  1. To stand in competition with; to strive to gain the object which another is contending for; as, to rival one in love.
  2. To strive to equal or excel; to emulate. To rival thunder in its rapid course. – Dryden.

Ri"val
  1. A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.

    [Obs.]

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

  2. Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority; as, rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions.

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

  3. To stand in competition with] to strive to gain some object in opposition to; as, to rival one in love.
  4. To be in rivalry.

    [Obs.] Shak.
  5. One who is in pursuit of the same object as another; one striving to reach or obtain something which another is attempting to obtain, and which one only can posses; a competitor; as, rivals in love; rivals for a crown.

    * "Rivals, in the primary sense of the word, are those who dwell on the banks of the same stream. But since, as all experience shows, there is no such fruitful source of coutention as a water right, it would continually happen that these occupants of the opposite banks would be at strife with one another in regard of the periods during which they severally had a right to the use of the stream . . . And thus 'rivals' . . . came to be used of any who were on any grounds in more or less unfriendly competition with one another." Trench.

    Syn. -- Competitor; emulator; antagonist.

  6. To strive to equal or exel; to emulate.

    To rival thunder in its rapid course. Dryden.

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Rival

RI'VAL, noun [Latin rivalis; Heb. to contend, to strive. See Raffle.]

1. One who is in pursuit of the same object as another; one striving to reach or obtain something which another is attempting to obtain, and which one only can possess; a competitor; as rivals in love; rivals for a crown. Love will not patiently bear a rival

2. One striving to equal or exceed another in excellence; as two rivals in eloquence.

3. An antagonist; a competitor in any pursuit or strife.

RI'VAL, adjective Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority; as rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions.

Equal in years and rival in renown.

RI'VAL, verb transitive

1. To stand in competition with; to strive to gain the object which another is contending for; as, to rival one in love.

2. To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.

To rival thunder in its rapid course.

RI'VAL, verb intransitive To be competitors. [Not in use.]

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