Definition of "contest"

contest

noun
countable and uncountable, plural contests
1. (uncountable) Controversy; debate.
2. (uncountable) Struggle for superiority; combat.
3. (countable) A competition.
verb
third-person singular simple present contests, present participle contesting, simple past and past participle contested
1. (intransitive) To contend.
  Quotations
  Of man, who dares in pomp with Jove contest?
  1725, Homer, “Book IV”, in [Elijah Fenton], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot
  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
  1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
2. (transitive) To call into question; to oppose.
  Quotations
  Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequently repeated, few more contested than this.
  1848, John Daniel Morell, Historical and Critical View of the Speculative Philosophy of Europe in the Nineteenth Century
  On the other hand, the nationalitarian phenomenon is one in which the struggle against the imperialist powers of occupation has as its object, beyond the clearing of the national territory, the independence and sovereignty of the national State, uprooting in depth the positions of the ex-colonial power— the reconquest of the power of decision in all domains of national life, the prelude to that reconquest of identity which is at the heart of the renaissance undertaken on the basis of fundamental national demands, and ceaselessly contested, by every means available, on every level, and notably on the internal level'.
  1981, Anouar Abdel-Malek, Social Dialectics: Nation and Revolution, page 13
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.

Definition of "contest"

contest

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