English-Estonian translations for rival

Definition of rival

• A competitor 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
• Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another
• One having a common right or privilege with another; a partner
• Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority
• To oppose or compete with
• To be equal to, or match, or to surpass another
• To strive to equal or excel; to emulate

Examples

• Chris is my biggest rival in the 400-metre race
• As a social historian, he has no rival
• rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions
• to rival somebody in love

Related words

• arrival
• arrivals
• rivalry
• archrival
• rivalrous
• trivalent
• corrival
• unrivalled
• unrivaled