rival

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing. Defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor.
    — Chris is my biggest rival in the 400-metre race.
  2. Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another.
    — As a social historian, he has no rival.
  3. One having a common right or privilege with another; a partner. obsolete
    — If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, / The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.
动词 v.
  1. To oppose or compete with. transitive
    — to rival somebody in love
  2. To be equal to, or match, or to surpass another.
    — But the Waverley is still the best-placed station of any British city, and gives the arriving stranger a first impression rivalled in Europe only by the exclusively watery station approach at Venice.
  3. To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.
    — to rival thunder in its rapid course
形容词 adj.
  1. Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority. not-comparable
    — rival lovers

词形变化

rivals plural rivals present,singular,third-person rivaling US,participle,present rivalling UK,participle,present rivaled US,participle,past rivaled US,past rivalled UK,participle,past rivalled UK,past

词汇关系

下位词
rivaless
衍生词
archrival arch-rival corival nonrival rivaless rivalise rivalism rivality rivalization rivalize rivalless rivalmance rivalry rivalship rivalsome outrival unrivalable unrivaled unrivalled
相关词
rivulet

词源

词源 1
Learned borrowing from Latin rīvālis (literally “person using the same stream as another”). By surface analysis, Latin rīvus + -al.
词源 2
Learned borrowing from Latin rīvālis (literally “person using the same stream as another”). By surface analysis, Latin rīvus + -al.
词源 3
Learned borrowing from Latin rīvālis (literally “person using the same stream as another”). By surface analysis, Latin rīvus + -al.
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