"challenger" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: challengers [plural]
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English chalengere, chalangeour; equivalent to challenge + -er. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|en|enm|chalengere|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Middle English chalengere, {{inh+|en|enm|chalengere}} Inherited from Middle English chalengere, {{suffix|en|challenge|er|id2=agent noun}} challenge + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} challenger (plural challengers)
  1. One who challenges; especially, one who plays against the current champion of a game or contest in hopes of winning and becoming the new champion. Categories (topical): People, Stock characters Synonyms (one who challenges): adversary, combatant, contender, disputer, opponent Derived forms: challenger bank, multichallenger, nonchallenger Translations (one who challenges): հավակնորդ (havaknord) (Armenian), предизвикател (predizvikatel) [masculine] (Bulgarian), претенде́нт (pretendént) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 挑戰者 (Chinese Mandarin), 挑战者 (tiaǒzhànzhě) (Chinese Mandarin), vyzývatel [masculine] (Czech), udfordrer [common-gender] (Danish), uitdager [masculine] (Dutch), haastaja (Finnish), challengeur [masculine] (French), concurrent [masculine] (French), desafiador [masculine] (Galician), Herausforderer [masculine] (German), Herausforderin [feminine] (German), दावेदार (dāvedār) [masculine] (Hindi), penantang (Indonesian), agóideoir [masculine] (Irish), sfidante [feminine, masculine] (Italian), sfidatore [literary, masculine] (Italian), 挑戦者 (chōsensha) (alt: ちょうせんしゃ) (Japanese), 도전자 (dojeonja) (Korean), prōvocātor [masculine] (Latin), utfordrer (Norwegian Bokmål), utfordrar [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), urheizo (Old High German), چالشانگیز (čâlešangiz) (Persian), konkurent [masculine] (Polish), desafiante [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), desafiador [masculine] (Portuguese), tupaq (Quechua), pretendent [masculine] (Romanian), pretendentă [feminine] (Romanian), persoană care contestă ceva [feminine] (Romanian), претенде́нт (pretendént) [masculine] (Russian), изазѝва̄ч [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), izazìvāč [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), vyzývateľ [masculine] (Slovak), desafiador [masculine] (Spanish), retante [feminine, masculine] (Spanish), คู่แข่ง (kûu-kɛ̀ng) (Thai), претенде́нт (pretendént) [masculine] (Ukrainian), người thách (Vietnamese), heriwr [masculine] (Welsh)

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        "Ukrainian links with redundant target parameters",
        "en:People",
        "en:Stock characters"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The champion hopes to defeat his new challenger in the game to remain undefeated.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "One child stood as king of the hill, and tried to withstand the pushes and shoves of his challengers.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Shane Goldmacher, “Throw Out the Debate Playbook: Biden and Sanders to Clash Amid Crisis”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "Debates are often unpredictable, but it is especially hard to game out how this debate featuring a moderate standard-bearer and a liberal challenger will unfold and how people will process it. Hundreds of thousands of viewers, if not millions, will have been personally affected by Sunday, as public gathering spaces are shuttered, schools are closed and on Thursday the stock market plunged by the largest percentage in decades (it snapped back upward on Friday).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who challenges; especially, one who plays against the current champion of a game or contest in hopes of winning and becoming the new champion."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "challenge",
          "challenge"
        ],
        [
          "champion",
          "champion"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "word": "adversary"
    },
    {
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "word": "combatant"
    },
    {
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "word": "contender"
    },
    {
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "word": "disputer"
    },
    {
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "word": "opponent"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "havaknord",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "word": "հավակնորդ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "predizvikatel",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "предизвикател"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pretendént",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "претенде́нт"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "word": "挑戰者"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "tiaǒzhànzhě",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "word": "挑战者"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vyzývatel"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "udfordrer"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "uitdager"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "word": "haastaja"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "challengeur"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "concurrent"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "desafiador"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Herausforderer"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Herausforderin"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "dāvedār",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "दावेदार"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "word": "penantang"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "agóideoir"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sfidante"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "tags": [
        "literary",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sfidatore"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ちょうせんしゃ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "chōsensha",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "word": "挑戦者"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "dojeonja",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "word": "도전자"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "prōvocātor"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "word": "utfordrer"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "utfordrar"
    },
    {
      "code": "goh",
      "lang": "Old High German",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "word": "urheizo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "čâlešangiz",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "word": "چالشانگیز"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "konkurent"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "desafiante"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "desafiador"
    },
    {
      "code": "qu",
      "lang": "Quechua",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "word": "tupaq"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pretendent"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pretendentă"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "persoană care contestă ceva"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pretendént",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "претенде́нт"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "изазѝва̄ч"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "izazìvāč"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vyzývateľ"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "desafiador"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "retante"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "kûu-kɛ̀ng",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "word": "คู่แข่ง"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "pretendént",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "претенде́нт"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "word": "người thách"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "one who challenges",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "heriwr"
    }
  ],
  "word": "challenger"
}

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