different between contest vs feud

English

Etymology

From French contester, from Old French, from Latin contestor (“to call to witness”).

Pronunciation

Noun

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?n.t?st/
• (US) enPR: k?n't?st, IPA^(key): /?k?n.t?st/
• Rhymes: -?nt?st

Verb

• (UK, US) enPR: k?nt?st', IPA^(key): /k?n?t?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

contest (countable and uncountable, plural contests)

1. (uncountable) Controversy; debate.

   Synonyms: controversy, debate, discussion

2. (uncountable) Struggle for superiority; combat.

   Synonyms: battle, combat, fight

3. (countable) A competition.

   Synonyms: competition, pageant

Derived terms

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Verb

contest (third-person singular simple present contests, present participle contesting, simple past and past participle contested)

1. (intransitive) To contend.

   Synonyms: compete, contend, go in for

   • 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth

     As for the difficulty or obscurity of an argument, that does but add to the pleasure.of contesting with it when there are hopes of victory

2. (transitive) To call into question; to oppose.

   Synonyms: call into question, oppose

   Antonym: support

   • 1848, John Daniel Morell, Historical and Critical View of the Speculative Philosophy of Europe in the Nineteenth Century

     Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequently repeated, few more contested than this.

3. (transitive) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.

4. (law) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course of law.

   Synonym: controvert

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Anagrams

• Consett, Cottens

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: fyo?od, IPA^(key): /fju?d/
• Rhymes: -u?d

Etymology 1

From northern Middle English fede, feide, from Old French faide/feide/fede, from Old High German fehida, from Proto-West Germanic *faihiþu (“hatred, enmity”) (corresponding to foe +? -th), from Proto-Indo-European *pey?- (“hostile”). Old English f?hþ, f?hþu, f?hþo (“hostility, enmity, violence, revenge, vendetta”) was directly inherited from Proto-Germanic *faihiþ?, and is cognate to Modern German Fehde, Dutch vete (“feud”), Danish fejde (“feud, enmity, hostility, war”), and Swedish fejd (“feud, controversy, quarrel, strife”).

Alternative forms

• fede (obsolete)

Noun

feud (plural feuds)

1. A state of long-standing mutual hostility.

   You couldn't call it a feud exactly, but there had always been a chill between Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods.

2. (professional wrestling) A staged rivalry between wrestlers.
3. (obsolete) A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.

Related terms

• blood feud

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Verb

feud (third-person singular simple present feuds, present participle feuding, simple past and past participle feuded)

1. (intransitive) To carry on a feud.

   The two men began to feud after one of them got a job promotion and the other thought he was more qualified.

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Etymology 2

From Medieval Latin feudum. Doublet of fee.

Alternative forms

• feod

Noun

feud (plural feuds)

2. An estate granted to a vassal by a feudal lord in exchange for service.

Synonyms

• fee
• fief

Related terms

• feudal
• feudalism

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