Hypertext Webster Gateway: "contender"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Contender \Con*tend"er\, n.
One who contends; a contestant.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
contender
n : the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his
rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was
doing" [syn: {rival}, {challenger}, {competitor}, {competition}]
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