contest
noun
• an event in which people compete for supremacy in a sport or other activity, or in a quality.
• "a tennis contest"
Similar:
competition,
match,
tournament,
game,
meet,
event,
trial,
bout,
heat,
fixture,
tie,
race,
contest
verb
• engage in competition to attain (a position of power).
• "she declared her intention to contest the presidency"
Similar:
compete for,
contend for,
vie for,
challenge for,
fight for,
fight over,
battle for,
struggle for,
tussle for,
try to win,
try for,
go for,
throw one's hat in the ring,
compete in,
contend in,
fight in,
battle in,
enter,
take part in,
be a competitor in,
participate in,
put one's name down for,
go in for,
• oppose (an action or theory) as mistaken or wrong.
• "the former chairman contests his dismissal"
Similar:
oppose,
object to,
challenge,
dispute,
take a stand against,
resist,
defy,
strive/struggle against,
take issue with,
question,
call into question,
doubt,
litigate,
Opposite:
agree with,
Origin:
late 16th century (as a verb in the sense ‘swear to, attest’): from Latin contestari ‘call upon to witness, initiate (by calling witnesses)’, from con- ‘together’ + testare ‘to witness’. The senses ‘wrangle, struggle for’ arose in the early 17th century, whence the current noun and verb senses.
