noun
Meaning 1
The action of competing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- The competition for this job is strong.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
competition
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˌkɒm.pəˈtɪʃ.ən/
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Atlantic-Canada, General-American: /ˌkɑm.pəˈtɪʃ.ən/
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Canada, dialectal: /ˌkɒm.pəˈtɪʃ.ən/ of the US
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Australian: /ˌkɔm.pəˈtɪʃ.ən/
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New-Zealand: [ˌkɔ̟m.pəˈtəʃ.ən]
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noun
Meaning 2
A contest for a prize or award.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Examples
- The newspaper is featuring a competition to win a car.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The competitors in such a contest.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: collective, uncountable
Examples
- The new stain remover was ten times more effective than the competition.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
the act of competing as for profit or a prize
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the teams were in fierce contention for first place
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: contention, rivalry
Antonyms: cooperation
Broader terms: group action
Narrower terms: contest
noun
Meaning 5
an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: contest
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: social event
Narrower terms: game, athletic contest, athletic competition, athletics, bout, championship, chicken, cliffhanger, dogfight, race, tournament, tourney, playoff, series, field trial, match, spelling bee, spelldown, spelling contest, trial
noun
Meaning 6
the contestant you hope to defeat
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he had respect for his rivals
- he wanted to know what the competition was doing
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rival, challenger, competitor, contender
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: contestant
Narrower terms: champion, champ, title-holder, comer, finalist, foe, enemy, front-runner, favorite, favourite, king, queen, world-beater, runner-up, second best, scratch, semifinalist, street fighter, tier, tilter
noun
Meaning 7
a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- business competition can be fiendish at times
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: business relation
Narrower terms: price war, price competition
History
Etymology
Borrowed from French compétition, from Late Latin competītiō, competītiōnem, from Latin competō, from con- + petō. By surface analysis, compete + -ition.
Across languages
Translations
274 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: konkurrencë — action of competing
- Albanian: garë — action of competing
- Arabic: مُنَافَسَة (munāfasa) — action of competing
- Arabic: مُبَارَاة (mubārāh) — action of competing
- Arabic: مُباراة (mubārā) — action of competing
- Armenian: մրցակցություն (mrcʻakcʻutʻyun) — action of competing
- Azerbaijani: rəqabət — action of competing
- Azerbaijani: yarışma — action of competing
- Belarusian: канкурэ́нцыя (kankuréncyja) — action of competing
- Bulgarian: съпе́рничество (sǎpérničestvo) — action of competing
- Bulgarian: конкуре́нция (konkuréncija) — action of competing
- Bulgarian: съревнова́ване (sǎrevnovávane) — action of competing
- Bulgarian: надпрева́рване (nadprevárvane) — action of competing
- Catalan: competició — action of competing
- Chinese Cantonese: 比賽 /比赛 (bei2 coi3) — action of competing
- Chinese Cantonese: 競爭 /竞争 (ging6 zang1) — action of competing
- Chinese: бисэ (bise) — action of competing
- Chinese Mandarin: 比賽 /比赛 (bǐsài) — action of competing
- Chinese Mandarin: 競爭 /竞争 (jìngzhēng) — action of competing
- Czech: soupeření — action of competing
- Czech: konkurování — action of competing
- Czech: konkurence — action of competing
- Danish: konkurrence — action of competing
- Dutch: concurrentie — action of competing
- Esperanto: konkuro — action of competing
- Estonian: võistlus — action of competing
- Estonian: konkurents — action of competing
- Estonian: võistlemine — action of competing
- Ewe: ɖikeke — action of competing
- Finnish: kilpailu — action of competing
- French: compétition — action of competing
- French: concurrence — action of competing
- West-Frisian: kompetysje — action of competing
- Georgian: შეჯიბრება (šeǯibreba) — action of competing
- Georgian: კონკურენცია (ḳonḳurencia) — action of competing
- German: Konkurrenz — action of competing
- Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍆𐍃𐍄𐍃 (haifsts) — action of competing
- Greek: ανταγωνισμός (antagonismós) — action of competing
- Greek: συναγωνισμός (synagonismós) — action of competing
- Hebrew: תַּחֲרוּת (takharút) — action of competing
- Hindi: प्रतिस्पर्धा (pratispardhā) — action of competing
- Hindi: प्रतियोगिता (pratiyogitā) — action of competing
- Hungarian: verseny — action of competing
- Hungarian: versengés — action of competing
- Hungarian: konkurencia — action of competing
- Hungarian: rivalizálás — action of competing
- Indonesian: persaingan — action of competing
- Indonesian: kompetisi — action of competing
- Irish: iomaidh — action of competing
- Irish: coimhlint — action of competing
- Italian: competizione — action of competing
- Italian: concorrenza — action of competing
- Japanese: 競争 (kyōsō) — action of competing
- Japanese: コンペ (konpe) — action of competing
- Japanese: コンペティション (konpetishon) — action of competing
- Kazakh: жарыс (jarys) — action of competing
- Kazakh: бәсеке (bäseke) — action of competing
- Kazakh: бәсекелестік (bäsekelestık) — action of competing
- Korean: 경쟁 (gyeongjaeng) — action of competing
- Korean: 컴페티션 (keompetisyeon) — action of competing
- Northern Kurdish: pêşbazî — action of competing
- Northern Kurdish: pêşbirk — action of competing
- Northern Kurdish: berêkane — action of competing
- Northern Kurdish: misabiqe — action of competing
- Northern Kurdish: hevrikî — action of competing
- Northern Kurdish: hawirkan — action of competing
- Northern Kurdish: riberiz — action of competing
- Northern Kurdish: sîbaq — action of competing
- Northern Kurdish: reqabet — action of competing
- Kyrgyz: конкуренция (konkurentsiya) — action of competing
- Latin: certāmen — action of competing
- Latvian: konkurence — action of competing
- Lithuanian: konkurencija — action of competing
- Macedonian: натпревар (natprevar) — action of competing
- Macedonian: конкуренција (konkurencija) — action of competing
- Malay: persaingan — action of competing
- Malayalam: മത്സരം (matsaraṁ) — action of competing
- Māori: tātāwhāinga — action of competing
- Marathi: स्पर्धा (spardhā) — action of competing
- Mongolian: өрсөлдөөн (örsöldöön) — action of competing
- Norwegian Bokmål: konkurranse — action of competing
- Pashto: سيالي (syālí) — action of competing
- Pashto: رقابت (reqābát) — action of competing
- Dari: رَقَابَت (raqābat) — action of competing
- Dari: مُنَافَسَه (munāfasa) — action of competing
- Iranian Persian: رِقابَت (reġâbat) — action of competing
- Iranian Persian: مُنافَسِه (monâfase) — action of competing
- Polish: rywalizacja — action of competing
- Polish: konkurencja — action of competing
- Portuguese: competição — action of competing
- Romanian: competiție — action of competing
- Romanian: concurență — action of competing
- Romanian: concurs — action of competing
- Russian: соревнова́ние (sorevnovánije) — action of competing
- Russian: состяза́ние (sostjazánije) — action of competing
- Russian: конкуре́нция (konkuréncija) — action of competing
- Russian: сопе́рничество (sopérničestvo) — action of competing
- Serbo-Croatian: конкурѐнција — action of competing
- Serbo-Croatian: konkurèncija — action of competing
- Slovak: konkurencia — action of competing
- Slovene: tekmovanje — action of competing
- Slovene: konkurenca — action of competing
- Southern Altai: јарыш (ǰarïš) — action of competing
- Spanish: competición — action of competing
- Swedish: konkurrens — action of competing
- Tagalog: tagisan — action of competing
- Tagalog: pakikitagis — action of competing
- Tajik: рақобат (raqobat) — action of competing
- Tamil: போட்டி (pōṭṭi) — action of competing
- Tatar: ярыш (yarış) — action of competing
- Telugu: పోటీ (pōṭī) — action of competing
- Tok Pisin: pasin resis — action of competing
- Turkish: rekabet — action of competing
- Turkish: rakiplik — action of competing
- Ottoman Turkish: رقابت (rekabet) — action of competing
- Ukrainian: конкуре́нція (konkuréncija) — action of competing
- Ukrainian: змага́ння (zmahánnja) — action of competing
- Urdu: ٹَکَّر (ṭakkar) — action of competing
- Uyghur: رىقابەت (riqabet) — action of competing
- Uzbek: raqobat — action of competing
- Uzbek: konkurensiya — action of competing
- Vietnamese: sự cạnh tranh — action of competing
- Welsh: cystadleuaeth — action of competing
- Afrikaans: kompetisie — contest for a prize or award
- Albanian: garë — contest for a prize or award
- Albanian: konkurs — contest for a prize or award
- Arabic: مُنَافَسَة (munāfasa) — contest for a prize or award
- Arabic: مُسَابَقَة (musābaqa) — contest for a prize or award
- Arabic: مُبَارَاة (mubārāh) — contest for a prize or award
- Arabic: مُسابقة (musābaga) — contest for a prize or award
- Armenian: մրցույթ (mrcʻuytʻ) — contest for a prize or award
- Azerbaijani: müsabiqə — contest for a prize or award
- Azerbaijani: yarış — contest for a prize or award
- Bashkir: ярыш (yarış) — contest for a prize or award
- Belarusian: спабо́рніцтва (spabórnictva) — contest for a prize or award
- Belarusian: ко́нкурс (kónkurs) — contest for a prize or award
- Bulgarian: състеза́ние (sǎstezánie) — contest for a prize or award
- Bulgarian: съревнова́ние (sǎrevnovánie) — contest for a prize or award
- Bulgarian: надпрева́ра (nadprevára) — contest for a prize or award
- Burmese: ပြိုင်ပွဲ (pruingpwai:) — contest for a prize or award
- Catalan: competició — contest for a prize or award
- Chinese Cantonese: 比賽 /比赛 (bei2 coi3) — contest for a prize or award
- Chinese: бисэ (bise) — contest for a prize or award
- Chinese: 比賽 /比赛 (zh-min-nan) — contest for a prize or award
- Chinese Mandarin: 比賽 /比赛 (bǐsài) — contest for a prize or award
- Wu Chinese: 比賽 /比赛 (5pi-se) — contest for a prize or award
- Czech: soutěž — contest for a prize or award
- Danish: konkurrence — contest for a prize or award
- Dutch: competitie — contest for a prize or award
- Dutch: toernooi — contest for a prize or award
- Dutch: wedstrijd — contest for a prize or award
- Dutch: wedloop — contest for a prize or award
- Esperanto: konkurso — contest for a prize or award
- Estonian: võistlus — contest for a prize or award
- Estonian: konkurss — contest for a prize or award
- Ewe: ɖikeke — contest for a prize or award
- Finnish: kilpailu — contest for a prize or award
- Finnish: kisa — contest for a prize or award
- French: concours — contest for a prize or award
- French: compétition — contest for a prize or award
- West-Frisian: kompetysje — contest for a prize or award
- Georgian: შეჯიბრი (šeǯibri) — contest for a prize or award
- German: Wettbewerb — contest for a prize or award
- Greek: διαγωνισμός (diagonismós) — contest for a prize or award
- Ancient Greek: ἀγών (agṓn) — contest for a prize or award
- Ancient Greek: ἅμιλλα (hámilla) — contest for a prize or award
- Hindi: प्रतियोगिता (pratiyogitā) — contest for a prize or award
- Hindi: मुक़ाबला (muqāblā) — contest for a prize or award
- Hindi: स्पर्धा (spardhā) — contest for a prize or award
- Hindi: प्रतिस्पर्धा (pratispardhā) — contest for a prize or award
- Hungarian: verseny — contest for a prize or award
- Hungarian: vetélkedő — contest for a prize or award
- Hungarian: megmérettetés — contest for a prize or award
- Indonesian: pertandingan — contest for a prize or award
- Indonesian: kompetisi — contest for a prize or award
- Indonesian: sayembara — contest for a prize or award
- Indonesian: perlombaan — contest for a prize or award
- Irish: iomaidh — contest for a prize or award
- Irish: comórtas — contest for a prize or award
- Italian: concorso — contest for a prize or award
- Italian: competizione — contest for a prize or award
- Italian: gara — contest for a prize or award
- Japanese: 大会 (taikai) — contest for a prize or award
- Japanese: コンペ (konpe) — contest for a prize or award
- Japanese: コンクール (konkūru) — contest for a prize or award
- Japanese: コンテスト (kontesuto) — contest for a prize or award
- Kaitag: бяс (bəs) — contest for a prize or award
- Kanakanabu: arumuan — contest for a prize or award
- Kazakh: жарыс (jarys) — contest for a prize or award
- Kazakh: конкурс (konkurs) — contest for a prize or award
- Kazakh: байқау (baiqau) — contest for a prize or award
- Khmer: ប្រកួត (prɑɑkuət) — contest for a prize or award
- Khmer: ជំនែង (cumnɛɛng) — contest for a prize or award
- Korean: 경기 (gyeonggi) — contest for a prize or award
- Korean: 경쟁시험 (gyeongjaengsiheom) — contest for a prize or award
- Korean: 경진 대회 (gyeongjin daehoe) — contest for a prize or award
- Korean: 콩쿠르 (kongkureu) — contest for a prize or award
- Korean: 콘테스트 (konteseuteu) — contest for a prize or award
- Korean: 시합 (sihap) — contest for a prize or award
- Northern Kurdish: pêşbazî — contest for a prize or award
- Northern Kurdish: pêşbirk — contest for a prize or award
- Northern Kurdish: berêkane — contest for a prize or award
- Northern Kurdish: misabiqe — contest for a prize or award
- Northern Kurdish: hevrikî — contest for a prize or award
- Northern Kurdish: hawirkan — contest for a prize or award
- Northern Kurdish: riberiz — contest for a prize or award
- Northern Kurdish: sîbaq — contest for a prize or award
- Northern Kurdish: reqabet — contest for a prize or award
- Kyrgyz: мелдеш (meldeş) — contest for a prize or award
- Kyrgyz: жарыш (jarış) — contest for a prize or award
- Latin: certāmen — contest for a prize or award
- Latvian: konkurss — contest for a prize or award
- Latvian: sacensības — contest for a prize or award
- Lithuanian: konkursas — contest for a prize or award
- Lithuanian: rungtynės — contest for a prize or award
- Lithuanian: varžybos — contest for a prize or award
- Macedonian: натпревар (natprevar) — contest for a prize or award
- Malay: pertandingan — contest for a prize or award
- Malay: sayembara — contest for a prize or award
- Malayalam: മത്സരം (matsaraṁ) — contest for a prize or award
- Māori: tauwhāinga — contest for a prize or award
- Mongolian: уралдаан (uraldaan) — contest for a prize or award
- Mongolian: тэмцээн (temceen) — contest for a prize or award
- Norwegian Bokmål: konkurranse — contest for a prize or award
- Norwegian Bokmål: tevling — contest for a prize or award
- Pashto: کانکور (kānkór) — contest for a prize or award
- Pashto: مسابقه (mosābeqá) — contest for a prize or award
- Dari: مُسَابَقَه (musābaqa) — contest for a prize or award
- Iranian Persian: مُسابِقِه (mosâbeġe) — contest for a prize or award
- Plautdietsch: Wadkaumpf — contest for a prize or award
- Polish: konkurs — contest for a prize or award
- Polish: zawody — contest for a prize or award
- Portuguese: concurso — contest for a prize or award
- Portuguese: competição — contest for a prize or award
- Romanian: concurs — contest for a prize or award
- Romanian: competiție — contest for a prize or award
- Russian: соревнова́ние (sorevnovánije) — contest for a prize or award
- Russian: состяза́ние (sostjazánije) — contest for a prize or award
- Russian: ко́нкурс (kónkurs) — contest for a prize or award
- Scottish Gaelic: co-fharpais — contest for a prize or award
- Serbo-Croatian: те̏кма — contest for a prize or award
- Serbo-Croatian: у̀такмица — contest for a prize or award
- Serbo-Croatian: tȅkma — contest for a prize or award
- Serbo-Croatian: ùtakmica — contest for a prize or award
- Shan: ပၢင်ၶေႉၶဵင်ႇ (pǎang khḛ̂e khàeng) — contest for a prize or award
- Slovak: súťaž — contest for a prize or award
- Slovene: tekma — contest for a prize or award
- Spanish: competición — contest for a prize or award
- Swedish: tävling — contest for a prize or award
- Tajik: мусобиқа (musobiqa) — contest for a prize or award
- Tamil: போட்டி (pōṭṭi) — contest for a prize or award
- Tamil: பந்தயம் (pantayam) — contest for a prize or award
- Tatar: ярыш (yarış) — contest for a prize or award
- Telugu: పందెము (pandemu) — contest for a prize or award
- Telugu: పోటీ (pōṭī) — contest for a prize or award
- Thai: การแข่ง (gaan-kɛ̀ng) — contest for a prize or award
- Thai: การแข่งขัน (gaan-kɛ̀ng-kǎn) — contest for a prize or award
- Tibetan: འགྲན་བསྡུར ('gran bsdur) — contest for a prize or award
- Tok Pisin: resis — contest for a prize or award
- Turkish: müsabaka — contest for a prize or award
- Turkish: yarış — contest for a prize or award
- Turkmen: ýaryş — contest for a prize or award
- Turkmen: konkurs — contest for a prize or award
- Ukrainian: змага́ння (zmahánnja) — contest for a prize or award
- Ukrainian: ко́нкурс (kónkurs) — contest for a prize or award
- Urdu: مُقابْلَہ (muqābla) — contest for a prize or award
- Urdu: مُسابَقَہ (musābaqa) — contest for a prize or award
- Uyghur: مۇسابىقە (musabiqe) — contest for a prize or award
- Uzbek: musobaqa — contest for a prize or award
- Uzbek: konkurs — contest for a prize or award
- Uzbek: poyga — contest for a prize or award
- Vietnamese: cuộc thi — contest for a prize or award
- Welsh: cystadleuaeth — contest for a prize or award
- Welsh: ymryson — contest for a prize or award
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