Definitions for rivals

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rivals ri·val

Spelling: [rahy-vuh l]

IPA: /ˈraɪ vəl/

Rivals is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 143 anagrams from letters in rivals (ailrsv).

Definitions for rivals

noun

1. a person who is competing for the same object or goal as another, or who tries to equal or outdo another; competitor.
2. a person or thing that is in a position to dispute another's preeminence or superiority:
3. Obsolete. a companion in duty.
4. a comedy of manners (1775) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

adjective

1. competing or standing in rivalry:

verb (used with object)

1. to compete with in rivalry: strive to win from, equal, or outdo.
2. to prove to be a worthy rival of:
3. to equal (something) as if in carrying on a rivalry:

verb (used without object)

1. to engage in rivalry; compete.

Origin of rivals

1570-80; Latin rīvālis orig., one who uses a stream in common with another, equivalent to rīv(us) stream + -ālis -al¹

Examples for rivals

Case in point—a Normandy estate that is making cider that rivals the area's fine wine.

After that there are usually two rivals, and she marries one of them—that's three.

Jeep steadily gave up a market it had created to rivals, particularly Toyota and Range Rover.

He said the news of his appointment was not true, that it was disinformation spread by “some intelligence agency and my rivals.”

Were they his rivals, he found the perfect word for their merits and shortcomings.

Pulling them together is not about establishing a team of rivals, but a team of enemies.

We have been foes and rivals; why should not our path be the same?

But that terrible monopoly, the Paris-Lyon-Mditerrane, will tolerate no rivals.

As rivals, things would be wonderfully fair and even between us.

The Kentucky Republican also mentioned several potential GOP rivals in 2016.