challenger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: games
hobbies
law
lifestyle
sports
tennis
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English chalengere, chalangeour, chalenger (“one who causes injury, or makes false charges or slanderous statements; one who disputes, disputant, objector; claimant”), and then partly from both of the following:
* From Middle English chalengen (“to accuse; to accuse falsely or maliciously, slander; to treat unjustly, wrong; to dispute, object; to make a claim or demand; to rebuke, scold; to issue a challenge to; etc.”) + -er, -ere (suffix forming agent nouns). Chalengen is derived from Anglo-Norman chalenger, and Old French chalenger, chalongier (“to challenge, dispute; to claim; etc.”) (modern French challenger), from Late Latin calumniāre, the second-person singular present active imperative or indicative of calumnior (“to accuse falsely; to make hurtful untrue comments about; etc.”), from Latin calumnia (“artifice, trickery; false accusation; false statement; etc.”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₁l-, *keh₁l- (“to beguile, deceive”)) + -or (the first-person singular present passive indicative of -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)).
* From Old French chalengeor (“claimant, plaintiff; false accuser, slanderer”) (modern French challengeur), from chalenger, chalongier (see above) + -eor (variant of -or (suffix forming agent nouns)).
By surface analysis, challenge (verb) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).
Inflected forms:
form: challengers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Challenger
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who challenges.
pos: noun
examples: [C]ertainly there is no true orator who is not a hero. […] He is challenger and must answer all comers.
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).
Candidates for a state senate seat race in South Florida in which a spoiler appeared to help Republican challenger Ileana Garcia unseat incumbent Democrat Jose Javier Rodriguez.
gloss: One who challenges.
pos: noun
examples: challengers of traditional attitudes
gloss: One who challenges.
pos: noun
examples: The champion hopes to defeat his new challenger in the game to remain undefeated.
One child stood as king of the hill, and tried to withstand the pushes and shoves of his challengers.
Roſ[alind]. Young man, haue you challeng'd Charles the VVraſtler? / Orl[ando]. No faire Princeſſe: he is the general challenger, I come but in as others do, to try vvith him the ſtrength of my youth.
gloss: One who challenges.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Novv vvhen they vvere come before Appius, ſitting judicially upon his tribunall ſeate, the plaintife or challenger aforeſaid, declareth againſt her, […]
gloss: Often in the form Challenger: a match, tournament, or tour of the second-highest tier organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals.
pos: noun
tags: also
attributive
Derived words: Challenger
Challenger Deep
challenger bank
multichallenger
nonchallenger
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: հավակնորդ
roman: havaknord
lang: Bulgarian
word: предизвикател
roman: predizvikatel
lang: Bulgarian
word: претенде́нт
roman: pretendént
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 挑戰者 /挑战者
roman: tiaǒzhànzhě
lang: Czech
word: vyzývatel
lang: Danish
word: udfordrer
lang: Dutch
word: uitdager
lang: Finnish
word: haastaja
lang: French
word: challengeur
lang: French
word: concurrent
lang: Galician
word: desafiador
lang: Georgian
word: გამომწვევი
roman: gamomc̣vevi
lang: Georgian
word: მეტოქე
roman: meṭoke
lang: Georgian
word: მოცილე
roman: mocile
lang: Georgian
word: ოპონენტი
roman: oṗonenṭi
lang: Georgian
word: პრეტენდენტი
roman: ṗreṭendenṭi
lang: German
word: Herausforderer
lang: German
word: Herausforderin
lang: Old High German
word: urheizo
lang: Hindi
word: दावेदार
roman: dāvedār
lang: Indonesian
word: penantang
lang: Irish
word: agóideoir
lang: Italian
word: sfidante
lang: Italian
word: sfidatore
lang: Japanese
word: 挑戦者
roman: chōsensha
lang: Korean
word: 도전자
roman: dojeonja
lang: Latin
word: prōvocātor
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: utfordrer
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: utfordrar
lang: Persian
word: چالشانگیز
roman: čâlešangiz
lang: Polish
word: konkurent
lang: Portuguese
word: desafiador
lang: Portuguese
word: desafiante
lang: Quechua
word: tupaq
lang: Romanian
word: pretendent
lang: Romanian
word: pretendentă
lang: Romanian
word: persoană care contestă ceva
lang: Russian
word: претенде́нт
roman: pretendént
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: изазѝва̄ч
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: izazìvāč
lang: Slovak
word: vyzývateľ
lang: Spanish
word: desafiador
lang: Spanish
word: retante
lang: Thai
word: คู่แข่ง
roman: kûu-kɛ̀ng
lang: Ukrainian
word: претенде́нт
roman: pretendént
lang: Vietnamese
word: người thách
lang: Welsh
word: heriwr