Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word CONTEST

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Definitions of CONTEST

1. (uncountable) Controversy; debate.
2. (uncountable) Struggle for superiority; combat.
3. (countable) A competition.
4. (intransitive) To contend.
5. (transitive) To call into question; to oppose.
6. (transitive) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.
7. (law) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course of law.

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Examples of Using CONTEST in a Sentence

• They were afforded relative security against persecution, provided they did not contest the varying inferior social and legal status imposed on them under Islamic rule.
• He was the first man since 1886 to contest six consecutive Wimbledon finals, a record surpassed by Roger Federer's seven consecutive finals (2003–09).
• "Un Blodymary", a 2006 song by Las Ketchup, and the Spanish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2006.
• The tales (mostly written in verse, although some are in prose) are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together from London to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.
• The contest was inspired by and based on Italy's national Sanremo Music Festival, held in the Italian Riviera since 1951.
• In the contest of wills between Hera and Zeus over whose candidate would be hero, fated to defeat the remaining creatures representing an old order and bring about the reign of the Twelve Olympians, Eurystheus was Hera's candidate and Heracles—though his name implies that at one archaic stage of myth-making he had carried "Hera's fame"—was the candidate of Zeus.
• The contest starts with the qualification phase, which takes place over the preceding three years to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase.
• The widely followed contest originated in the pages of Social Science Quarterly, where Simon challenged Ehrlich to put his money where his mouth was.
• Scholars often call it the New Age movement, although others contest this term and suggest it is better seen as a milieu or zeitgeist.
• In poker, an isolation play is usually a raise designed to encourage one or more players to fold, specifically for the purpose of making the hand a one-on-one contest with a specific opponent.
• A plea bargain, also known as a plea agreement or plea deal, is a legal arrangement in criminal law where the defendant agrees to plead guilty or no contest to a charge in exchange for concessions from the prosecutor.
• Pole jumping was already practiced by the ancient Egyptians, ancient Greeks and the ancient Irish people, although modern pole vaulting, an athletic contest where height is measured, was first established by the German teacher Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths in the 1790s.
• In the midst of a tumultuous contest by rival factions to name a successor to Pope Paul I, Stephen was elected with the support of the Roman officials.
• Depending on jurisdiction, additional pleas may be available, including nolo contendere (no contest), no case to answer (in the United Kingdom), or an Alford plea (in the United States).
• Riga hosted the 2006 NATO Summit, the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, the 2013 World Women's Curling Championship, and the IIHF Men's World Ice Hockey Championships in 2006, 2021, and 2023.
• After winning a local contest, Rammstein was able to record demos and send them to different record labels, eventually signing with Motor Music.
• The Oxford English Dictionary says that the phrase tug of war originally meant "the decisive contest; the real struggle or tussle; a severe contest for supremacy".
• Army sergeant, and mother Vassiliki "Voula" Papadimitriou (Greek: Βασιλική Παπαδημητρίου), a contestant on the 1957 Miss Greece beauty contest.
• The International Obfuscated C Code Contest (abbreviated IOCCC) is a computer programming contest for the most creatively obfuscated C code.
• The ship's patch was chosen by the crew based on entries to an art contest sponsored by the Corpus Christi, Texas city government.

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