Rivalry

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of competing or emulating.
  • n. The state or condition of being a rival.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The relationship between two or more rivals who regularly compete with each other. The term usually applies to two rivals.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of rivaling, or the state of being a rival; a competition.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of rivaling; competition; a strife or effort to obtain an object which another is pursuing: as, rivalry in love; an endeavor to equal or surpass another in some excellence; emulation: as, rivalry for superiority at the bar or in the senate.
  • n. Synonyms Competition, etc. See emulation.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the act of competing as for profit or a prize
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    contest   
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    feud    animosity    jealousy    strife    antagonism    hostility    dissensions    dispute    discontent    ambition