Contest is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONTEST in dictionary:

VERB:
• to compete for
• engage in competition to attain (a position of power)
• take part in (a competition or election)
• oppose (an action or theory) as mistaken or wrong
• engage in dispute about
• To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute.
• To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground.
• To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert.
• To engage in contention, or emulation; to contend; to strive; to vie; to emulate; -- followed usually by with.
• to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation
• dispute, object to
NOUN:
• an event in which people compete for supremacy in a sport or other activity, or in a quality
• a competition for a political position
• a dispute or conflict
• competition or struggle
• Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation.
• Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife in arms; conflict; combat; encounter.
• an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants
• a struggle between rivals

Words related to CONTEST

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Words that contain CONTEST

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How to use CONTEST in a sentence

• I had remarked him during the contest, a long, lean man with a bright, humorous blue eye and a fiery red head.
• The contest in Congress centred upon the admission of California as a State and the condition of slavery in the Territories of Utah and New Mexico.
• For you are mistaken, Lucius Paulus, if you imagine that you will have a less violent contest with Caius Terentius than with Hannibal.
• Later in the afternoon there had been a renewal of the contest in the village store, and it had culminated in a fight, part of which Draxy herself had chanced to see.
• The Columbia tried to advance, tried to back water, and then gave up the contest, standing upright on her flat flooring with no motion beyond an occasional faint bumping.
• And in vast numbers of instances, the parent, after a protracted contest, gives up in despair, and is compelled to invent some plausible pretext for bringing it to an end.
• When these also have been destroyed, Krishna meets Naraka and after a vicious contest finally kills him, recovering in consequence the earrings of Aditi and the canopy of Indra.
• After everybody has arrived, try a wooden smile contest.
• Two years later, however, Demetrius II, the son of the deposed king, appeared with a large body of Cretan mercenaries to contest the throne of his father.
• Old soldiers as they were, they were able to understand the actual issue of the contest.
• The contest between the two Republican candidates was interesting and exciting, though not bitter, and turned out to be very close.
• But in the organization of the House, the contest was not between white and colored, but between Democrats and Republicans.
• Along the bank I followed to watch the contest of skill and cunning between the man and the trout.
• Tilden, a political star of the first magnitude, and the contest which followed was unprecedented in American history.
• The kingdom of Wessex seemed alone to remain, and that was the subject of contest.
• It is also a period of political confusion, of contest between the north and south, of struggles between Chinese and Tartars.
• I see with infinite grief a contest arising between yourself and another, who have been very dear to each other, and equally so to me.
• Between the dark-browed, sullen mountaineer and the slender, gay young man a contest seemed uneven, and was prevented.
• Somerset-Maxwell to the fore at the next contest for the county of Cavan.
• There is no longer the excitement of the contest, and yet we are prisoners.
• He achieved distinction in the Thirty-third Congress, and after a long and bitter contest in the Thirty-fourth Congress, he was elected speaker of the House of Representatives.
• Everywhere the morality of the contest was examined and the ground carefully tested at each step.
• In a contest so grim the strong men who alone can carry it through are rarely able to do justice to the deep convictions of those with whom they grapple in mortal strife.
• The contest was nearly as fierce as the struggle between the whites and Indians.
• Can he but grant Forgiveness, when I contest for it, I do not care a straw for any pardon.
• In a little while the civil contest that had convulsed London was no longer a mystery to Graham.
• This contest at length exhausted Jussac’s patience.
• The great spiritual contest had completed its operation.
• Not less noble the present contest than the past, nor less heroic the soldier of to-day than the patriot of the Revolution.

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