different between opposition vs rival

English

Etymology

From Middle English opposicioun, from Old French oposicion (whence French opposition), from Late Latin oppositi?, translating Ancient Greek ????????? (antíthesis), from the past participle stem of classical Latin opp?n? (“I set against”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??z???n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p??z??n?/

Noun

opposition (plural oppositions)

1. The action of opposing or of being in conflict.
2. An opposite or contrasting position.
3. (astronomy) The apparent relative position of two celestial bodies when one is at an angle of 180 degrees from the other as seen from the Earth.
5. (politics) A political party or movement opposed to the party or government in power.
6. (law) In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to prevent the registration of a trademark or patent.
7. (chess) A position in which the player on the move must yield with his king allowing his opponent to advance with his own king.
8. (logic) The difference of quantity or quality between two propositions having the same subject and predicate.

Antonyms

• apposition

Translations

Further reading

• opposition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Noun

opposition

1. Genitive singular form of oppositio.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from post-classical Latin oppositi? (translating Ancient Greek ????????? (antíthesis)), from the past participle stem of classical Latin opp?n? (“I set against”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.po.zi.sj??/

Noun

opposition f (plural oppositions)

1. opposition

Derived terms

• par opposition à

Further reading

• “opposition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Latin r?v?lis (literally “person using the same stream as another”), from r?vus (“small stream, brook”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?v?l/
• Rhymes: -a?v?l

Noun

rival (plural rivals)

1. A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) 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.

2. Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another.

3. (obsolete) One having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.

Hyponyms

• rivaless

Derived terms

• rivaless
• rivalry
• archrival, arch-rival

Related terms

• rivulet

Translations

Adjective

rival (not comparable)

1. Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.

   rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions

Translations

Verb

rival (third-person singular simple present rivals, present participle rivalling or rivaling, simple past and past participle rivalled or rivaled)

1. (transitive) To oppose or compete with.

   to rival somebody in love

2. To be equal to, or match, or to surpass another.
3. To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.

   • to rival thunder in its rapid course

Translations

Anagrams

• Avril, arvil, viral

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ri?val/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ri?bal/

Adjective

rival (masculine and feminine plural rivals)

1. rival

Derived terms

• rivalitzar

Related terms

• rivalitat

Noun

rival m or f (plural rivals)

1. rival

Further reading

• “rival” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “rival” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “rival” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “rival” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin r?v?lis, literally ‘person using the same stream as another’, from r?vus (“small stream, brook”). Unrelated to rive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i.val/

Adjective

rival (feminine singular rivale, masculine plural rivaux, feminine plural rivales)

1. rival (attributively)

Noun

rival m (plural rivaux, feminine rivale)

1. rival

Descendants

• Norwegian Bokmål: rival

Further reading

• “rival” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• avril, livra, viral

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?i?va?l]
• Hyphenation: ri?val

Adjective

rival (not comparable)

1. (economics, of a good) rivalrous
   • 2012, Michael Goldhammer, Geistiges Eigentum und Eigentumstheorie, Mohr Siebeck, page 196:

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French rival (“rival”), from Latin r?v?lis (“of or pertaining to a brook”), from r?vus (“brook; channel”), from Proto-Italic *r?wos, from Proto-Indo-European *h?riH-wó-s, from *h?reyH- (“to move, flow”).

Noun

rival m (definite singular rivalen, indefinite plural rivaler, definite plural rivalene)

1. a rival

Derived terms

• erkerival

References

• “rival” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin rivalis, via French rival

Noun

rival m (definite singular rivalen, indefinite plural rivalar, definite plural rivalane)

1. a rival

Derived terms

• erkerival

References

• “rival” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Noun

rival m, f (plural rivais)

1. rival (competitor with the same objective)

   Synonyms: adversário, oponente

Adjective

rival m or f (plural rivais, comparable)

1. rival (standing in competition)

Related terms

• rio

Romanian

Etymology

From French rival, from Latin rivalis.

Noun

rival m (plural rivali)

1. rival

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??a?l/
• Hyphenation: ri?val

Noun

rìv?l m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. rival, adversary

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin r?v?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ri?bal/, [ri???al]

Adjective

rival (plural rivales)

1. adverse, rival

Noun

rival m or f (plural rivales)

1. rival

   Synonyms: adversario, antagonista, competidor, contrario, oponente

Derived terms

• archirrival

Related terms

• rivalidad
• rivalizar

Further reading

• “rival” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin rivalis, via French rival.

Pronunciation

Noun

rival c

1. rival

Declension

Anagrams

• vilar