Word Meanings - CONTESTANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another.

Related words: (words related to CONTESTANT)

• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• AWARDER
  One who awards, or assigns by sentence or judicial determination; a judge.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• OPPONENT
  Situated in front; opposite; hence, opposing; adverse; antagonistic. Pope. (more info) or place against, to oppose; ob + ponere to place. See
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• DISPUTANT
  Disputing; engaged in controversy. Milton.
• ANOTHER
  1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks,
• AWARD
  To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant. To review The wrongful sentence, and award a new. Dryden.
• ANOTHER-GAINES
  Of another kind. Sir P. Sidney.
• LITIGANT
  Disposed to litigate; contending in law; engaged in a lawsuit; as, the parties litigant. Ayliffe.
• ANOTHER-GATES
  Of another sort. "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras.
• VAWARD
  The fore part; van. Since we have the vaward of the day. Shak.
• SEAWARD
  Directed or situated toward the sea. Donne. Two still clouds . . . sparkled on their seaward edges like a frosted fleece. G. W. Cable.
• COLLITIGANT
  Disputing or wrangling. -- n.
• TITANOTHERIUM
  A large American Miocene mammal, allied to the rhinoceros, and more nearly to the extinct Brontotherium.