Rival

Definition of Rival

Ri´val

n.	1.	A person 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. - Shak.
	2.	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.
a.	1.	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.
v. t.	1.	To stand in competition with; to strive to gain some object in opposition to; as, to rival one in love. [imp. & p. p. Rivaled or Rivalled; p. pr. & vb. n. Rivaling or Rivalling.]
	2.	To strive to equal or exel; to emulate. To rival thunder in its rapid course. - Dryden.
v. i.	1.	To be in rivalry.

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