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contest English

Meaning contest meaning

What does contest mean?
Definitions in simple English

contest Noun

— A contest is where people do a quiz or play a game to win a prize. He took part in the contest as he wanted to win the first prize.

contest

— noun an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants — verb to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation They contested the outcome of the race — noun a struggle between rivals

Synonyms contest synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as contest?

contest English » English

competition dispute compete match fight challenge contend struggle rivalry game race battle conflict contention vie emulation strife quarrel war combat bout question oppose impugn wrangle rival event debate argument argue vie for tournament sport protest controvert controversy vying trial strive sporting event scuffle riot repugn recreation fray doubt dissension contradict contestation contend with

Topics contest topics

What do people use contest to talk about?
Language and thought Think Opinion

Agree with someone
Language and thought Think Opinion Agree with someone

Disagree
Social behavior Behavior Do good to Cooperate with

Compete with
Social behavior Conflict

Fight
Social behavior Conflict

War
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation

Sports
Social behavior Conflict Peace

Renounce claim, concede

Conjugation contest conjugation

How do you conjugate contest?

contest · verb

Examples contest examples

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Simple sentences

Are you going to take part in the English speech contest?
We will have a music contest soon.
The weak boy was eliminated from the bitter contest.
My father was a contestant in a cooking contest and won first prize.
Emily won first prize in the speech contest.
Are you going to take part in the contest?
I took part in the contest.
My sister, a university student, won first prize in the speech contest.
He distinguished himself in the contest.
He wants to participate in the contest.
He was disqualified from taking part in the contest.
The speech contest was held under the auspices of the Ministry of Education.
We took part in the contest.
Many students took part in the contest.
I'm sure that he will take part in the contest.
She won the contest.
She participated in the beauty contest.

Movie subtitles

How is a pie-eating contest training?
We challenge you to a pie-eating. Contest.
If they want to get into a jurisdictional dick-measuring contest, I'm all for it.
Make you the motions and my strength will win each contest.
Look for me at the jumping contest!
He won big money in some contest.
Announce a contest for a new anthem.
That's the smartest thing you ever did, Westley, not to contest that annulment.
Remember that beauty contest I won?
In this situation I have little doubt that a personal contest between the two men ended as it could hardly fail to end.
The old guessing contest.
And if you ever want to get into a contest sometime, just call on me.
I'm looking for a beauty contest to enter.
Judo is more than a mere contest.
It's an endurance contest.
The next nitwit who talks to me about a contest had better duck before I swing on him.
But every time I've lost a contest, I've doubled my chances on the next one.
Fine. - I was eight to one in the limerick contest.
I'd like you just as much if you didn't win the old contest.
Could you tell me if the jury's reached a verdict on the contest yet?
Well, I. I guess it's the contest, Mr Waterbury, the Maxford House contest.
And you really won the Maxford House contest, eh?
The contest winner is here.
The contest winner?
Bring me that contest cheque.
To know I won this contest because I thought up the best slogan means more to me that anything on earth.
That is a place that officers from each country will have a contest of their military strength.
We haven't started but you've launched the contest.
I won a beauty contest in Atlantic city.
That's the smartest thing you ever did, Westley. not to contest that annulment.
When he was twenty years old, he won a contest for the prettiest design for a new 50 Franc-bill.
Positively none sold during the contest.
My dear Mrs. Reed, sometimes in my profession. there comes a contest of wills between the doctor and his patient.
Now, Sara, ordinarilyawoman has too much pride to contest a lawsuit like this.
Mel is here to take you to the beauty contest.
No contest, lady.
Sixagainstthree. An unequal contest.
We too shall have our noble licence that factitious historians wanted to contest.
A dance contest.
They have their own contest.

News and current affairs

Strong pan-European center-right and center-left political parties are likely to contest the European Parliament elections in the spring of 2009.
They rightly contest the degradation of their ancestors, but also idealize their rural, communitarian nature.
A contest for China's soul is now underway in that giant country, pitting two powerful forces and two very different stances toward the outside world against each other.
The leadership contest has turned out differently from what many had expected.
It is a space in which Muslims and non-Muslims can coexist, discover their shared values, and cooperate. Peter Neumann, the director of the ICSR, has proposed a YouTube contest for videos that explain the failings of Daesh.
This is the best reason why in most cases it is best to contest elections, even in unpromising circumstances.
Natural selection is the process by which the variants within a species that are best adapted to survive in their environment win the reproductive contest - at least until an even better-adapted variant comes along.
I have announced that I intend to contest this upcoming presidential election as a way of opening debate on these essential reforms.
Mugabe's challengers would have been given the upper hand in the political conflict, and it might have been taken for granted inside Zimbabwe and the SADC that Mugabe would not and should not contest this round of elections.
For the same reason, Keynes famously described the stock market as a beauty contest in which each judge chooses not the most beautiful contestant according to his own views, but rather the contestant that he believes will be chosen by the other judges!
Their argument was that if you allow the government to ban opinions you hate or despise, you weaken your right to contest a similar ban on views with which you might agree.
The upshot is that Greece is back where it started in the poker contest with Germany and Europe.
Ríos Montt's latest political battle began when he sought to contest the upcoming presidential election.
What strikes me the most is that she sees, even then, the beginnings of the tribal conflicts and the coming contest among Islamists to outdo one another in fundamentalist purity.
As a result, the election could be less a referendum on the last eight years than a contest of ideas, with foreign policy emerging as a key topic.
But the next step in the argument - that the winner of an increasingly ugly contest will have the luxury of pursuing significantly different policies from his opponent - is much more uncertain.
In time, the US had to accept that each political contest or military battle lost was not a watershed as long as its core interests in Europe, the Far East, and Latin America were not threatened.
Marco himself was elected deputy on the Socialist ticket, but he defected when the party denied him the chance to contest Frei's nomination in a primary.
Competition for prestige, even when the contest is economic, is not a purely rational undertaking.
Peter Neumann, the director of the ICSR, has proposed a YouTube contest for videos that explain the failings of Daesh.
Revulsion at government and traditional politicians hit the presidential contest like a tornado in the summer, flattening the campaigns of some who were once seen as serious contenders.
For China, the Afghan contest will most likely turn out to be a very measured combination of chess and weiqi.
Will the anti-establishment - even anti-political - mood now dominating the contest last?
It became evident that he might win the first nominating contest, the Iowa caucuses, and that he was leading in the second, New Hampshire, and other states.
No, this time, the temptation will spring from China, which well understands Europe's significance in its emerging geopolitical contest with (and against) the US.

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