rivalry

1. 1.

   the act of competing as for profit or a prize

   “the teams were in fierce contention for first place”

   Synonymscompetitioncontention

   Broadergroup action

   Narrowercontest

Other forms of rivalry

plural

rivalries·

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 rivalry

What does rivalry mean?

rivalry means "the act of competing as for profit or a prize".

How many syllables are in rivalry?

rivalry has 3 syllables: ri-val-ry. The stress falls on "ri". In IPA it is /ˈɹaɪvəlɹi/.

What is another word for rivalry?

Close synonyms include competition, contention. 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 rivalry a common word?

rivalry 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.