1. competition(n = noun.linkdef) - a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers; "business competition can be fiendish at times"
is a kind of business relation
has particulars: price competition, price war
2. competition(n = noun.event) contest - an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants;
is a kind of social event
has particulars: game, athletic competition, athletic contest, athletics, bout, championship, chicken, cliffhanger, dogfight, race, tournament, tourney, playoff, series, field trial, match, tournament, race, spelldown, spelling bee, spelling contest, trial
3. competition(n = noun.act) contention, rivalry - the act of competing as for profit or a prize; "the teams were in fierce contention for first place"
is a kind of group action
has particulars: contest
Antonym: cooperation
Derived form verb compete1
4. competition(n = noun.person) challenger, competitor, contender, rival - the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing"
is a kind of contestant
has particulars: champ, champion, title-holder, comer, finalist, enemy, foe, favorite, favourite, front-runner, king, queen, world-beater, runner-up, second best, scratch, semifinalist, street fighter, tier, tilter
The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage; -- followed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with. [1913 Webster]
"Competition to the crown there is none, nor can be." [1913 Webster]
"A portrait, with which one of Titian's could not come in competition." [1913 Webster]
"There is no competition but for the second place." [1913 Webster]
"Where competition does not act at all there is complete monopoly."
competition, n.
1 (often foll. by for) competing, esp. in an examination, in trade, etc.
2 an event or contest in which people compete.
3 a the people competing against a person. b the opposition they represent.
Etymology:
LL competitio rivalry (as COMPETITIVE)
N opposition, antagonism, oppugnancy, oppugnation, impugnation, contrariety, contravention, counteraction, counterplot, cross fire, undercurrent, head wind, clashing, collision, conflict, competition, two of a trade, rivalry, emulation, race, absence of aid, resistance, restraint, hindrance, opposing, opposed, adverse, antagonistic, contrary, at variance, at issue, at war with, unfavorable, unfriendly, hostile, inimical, cross, unpropitious, in hostile array, front to front, with crossed bayonets, at daggers drawn, up in arms, resistant, competitive, emulous, against, versus, counter to, in conflict with, at cross purposes, against the grain, against the current, against the stream, against the wind, against the tide, with a headwind, with the wind ahead, with the wind in one's teeth, in spite, in despite, in defiance, in the way, in the teeth of, in the face of, across, athwart, overthwart, where the shoe pinches, in spite of one's teeth, though, even, quand meme, per contra, nitor in adversum.
N contention, strife, contest, contestation, struggle, belligerency, opposition, controversy, polemics, debate, war of words, logomachy, litigation, paper war, high words, sparring, competition, rivalry, corrivalry, corrivalship, agonism, concours, match, race, horse racing, heat, steeple chase, handicap, regatta, field day, sham fight, Derby day, turf, sporting, bullfight, tauromachy, gymkhana, boat race, torpids, wrestling, greco-roman wrestling, pugilism, boxing, fisticuffs, the manly art of self-defense, spar, mill, set-to, round, bout, event, prize fighting, quarterstaff, single stick, gladiatorship, gymnastics, jiujitsu, jujutsu, kooshti, sumo, athletics, athletic sports, games of skill, shindy, fracas, clash of arms, tussle, scuffle, broil, fray, affray, affrayment, velitation, colluctation, luctation, brabble, brigue, scramble, melee, scrimmage, stramash, bushfighting, free fight, stand up fight, hand to hand, running fight, conflict, skirmish, rencounter, encounter, rencontre, collision, affair, brush, fight, battle, battle royal, combat, action, engagement, joust, tournament, tilt, tilting, tournay, list, pitched battle, death struggle, struggle for life or death, life or death struggle, Armageddon, hard knocks, sharp contest, tug of war, naval engagement, naumachia, sea fight, duel, duello, single combat, monomachy, satisfaction, passage d'armes, passage of arms, affair of honor, triangular duel, hostile meeting, digladiation, deeds of arms, feats of arms, appeal to arms, pugnacity, combativeness, bone of contention, contending, together by the ears, at loggerheads, at war, at issue, competitive, rival, belligerent, contentious, combative, bellicose, unpeaceful, warlike, quarrelsome, pugnacious, pugilistic, gladiatorial, palestric, palestrical, a verbis ad verbera, a word and a blow, a very pretty quarrel as it stands, commune periculum concordiam parit, lis litem generat.