RIVALRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rivalry mean? 

• RIVALRY (noun)
  The noun RIVALRY has 1 sense:

1. the act of competing as for profit or a prize

  Familiarity information: RIVALRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIVALRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of competing as for profit or a prize

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

competition; contention; rivalry

Context example:

the teams were in fierce contention for first place

Hypernyms ("rivalry" is a kind of...):

group action (action taken by a group of people)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rivalry"):

contest (a struggle between rivals)

Derivation:

rival (be the rival of, be in competition with)

 Context examples 

They might have fought, but even wooing and its rivalry waited upon the more pressing hunger-need of the pack.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Thunders of applause from the English soldiers, as well as from the citizens and peasants, showed how far the love of brave and knightly deeds could rise above the rivalries of race.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The males were exterminated, Ape Town was destroyed, the females and young were driven away to live in bondage, and the long rivalry of untold centuries had reached its bloody end.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There is no folly so besotted that the idiotic rivalries of society, the prurience, the rashness, the blindness of youth, will not hurry a man to its commission.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Since rivalry between the sisters had ceased, they had been gradually recovering much of their former good understanding; and were at least sufficiently friends to make each of them exceedingly glad to be with the other at such a time.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

A score of secondary combats had nearly arisen from the rivalries and bad blood created by the selection, and it was only the influence of the prince and the efforts of the older barons which kept the peace among so many eager and fiery soldiers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I laughed aloud as the yolks of their eyeballs rolled toward us in haughty rivalry.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)