English noun: competition | |||
1. | competition a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers | ||
Samples | Business competition can be fiendish at times. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | business relation | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | price competition, price war | ||
2. | competition (event) an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants | ||
Synonyms | contest | ||
Broader (hypernym) | social event | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | athletic competition, athletic contest, athletics, bout, championship, chicken, cliffhanger, dogfight, field trial, game, match, playoff, race, race, series, spelldown, spelling bee, spelling contest, tournament, tournament, tourney, trial | ||
3. | competition (act) the act of competing as for profit or a prize | ||
Samples | The teams were in fierce contention for first place. | ||
Synonyms | contention, rivalry | ||
Broader (hypernym) | group action | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | contest | ||
Antonyms | cooperation | ||
4. | competition (person) the contestant you hope to defeat | ||
Samples | He had respect for his rivals. He wanted to know what the competition was doing. | ||
Synonyms | challenger, competitor, contender, rival | ||
Broader (hypernym) | contestant | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | champ, champion, comer, enemy, favorite, favourite, finalist, foe, front-runner, king, queen, runner-up, scratch, second best, semifinalist, street fighter, tier, tilter, title-holder, world-beater | ||