challenger

1. 1.

   the contestant you hope to defeat

   “he had respect for his rivals”

   “he wanted to know what the competition was doing”

   Synonymsrivalcompetitorcompetitioncontender

   Broadercontestant

   Narrowerchampioncomerfinalistfoefront-runnerkingrunner-upscratchsemifinaliststreet fighter

Other forms of challenger

plural

challengers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about challenger

What does challenger mean?

challenger means "the contestant you hope to defeat".

How many syllables are in challenger?

challenger has 3 syllables: chal-len-ger. The stress falls on "chal". In IPA it is /ˈtʃæləndʒɚ/.

What is another word for challenger?

Close synonyms include rival, competitor, competition, contender. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is challenger a common word?

challenger is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.