Dictionaries › English

contender

Pronunciation: /kənˈtɛn.dɚ/

The English word “contender” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Someone who competes with one or more other people.
  2. Someone who has a viable chance of winning a competition.

Etymology

From contend + -er.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “contender” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.