Meaning
A game or event that people try hard to win; a competition.
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Word origin
From Latin contestari, meaning to call witnesses to a legal fight, from testis, a witness.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- contestari
- English cognates
- protest, testify
Examples
singing .
You enter a contest, and you hope to win it.
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The winner of a contest often gets a prize.
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Any fight to win something can be a contest, not only games. As a verb it sounds different: to contest something is to argue against it.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 26, lesson 8: contest, sacred, novel and 7 more words.