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competition
Overview of noun competition
The noun competition has 4 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (17) competition -- (a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers; "business competition can be fiendish at times")
2. (4) contest, competition -- (an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants)
3. (4) competition, contention, rivalry -- (the act of competing as for profit or a prize; "the teams were in fierce contention for first place")
4. rival, challenger, competitor, competition, contender -- (the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun competition
4 senses of competition
Sense 1
competition
=> business relation
=> relation
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
contest, competition
=> social event
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
competition, contention, rivalry
=> group action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 4
rival, challenger, competitor, competition, contender
=> contestant
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun competition
4 senses of competition
Sense 1
competition
=> price war, price competition
Sense 2
contest, competition
=> game
=> athletic contest, athletic competition, athletics
=> bout
=> championship
=> chicken
=> cliffhanger
=> dogfight
=> race
=> tournament, tourney
=> playoff
=> series
=> field trial
=> match
=> tournament
=> race
=> spelling bee, spelldown, spelling contest
=> trial
Sense 3
competition, contention, rivalry
=> contest
Sense 4
rival, challenger, competitor, competition, contender
=> champion, champ, title-holder
=> comer
=> finalist
=> foe, enemy
=> front-runner, favorite, favourite
=> king, queen, world-beater
=> runner-up, second best
=> semifinalist
=> street fighter
=> tier
=> tilter
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun competition
4 senses of competition
Sense 1
competition
=> business relation
Sense 2
contest, competition
=> social event
Sense 3
competition, contention, rivalry
=> group action
Sense 4
rival, challenger, competitor, competition, contender
=> contestant
Antonyms of noun competition
1 of 4 senses of competition
Sense 3
competition, contention, rivalry
Antonym of cooperation (Sense 1)
=>cooperation
Member Holonyms of noun competition
Substance Holonyms of noun competition
Part Holonyms of noun competition
Member Meronyms of noun competition
Substance Meronyms of noun competition
Part Meronyms of noun competition
Meronyms of noun competition
Holonyms of noun competition
Attributes of noun competition
Derived Forms of noun competition
1 of 4 senses of competition
Sense 3
competition, contention, rivalry
RELATED TO>(verb) compete#1
=> compete, vie, contend
Domain of noun competition
Domain Terms of noun competition
Familiarity of noun competition
competition used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =4)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun competition
4 senses of competition
Sense 1
competition
> business relation
=> competition
=> clientage
Sense 2
contest, competition
> social event
=> show
=> affair, occasion, social occasion, function, social function
=> contest, competition
Sense 3
competition, contention, rivalry
> group action
=> vote
=> procession
=> military action, action
=> conflict, struggle, battle
=> revolution
=> social activity
=> communalism
=> confederation, alliance
=> decolonization, decolonisation
=> disbandment
=> disestablishment
=> transaction, dealing, dealings
=> stampede
=> social control
=> coup d'etat, coup, putsch, takeover
=> internationalization, internationalisation
=> nationalization, nationalisation
=> exchange
=> rally, exchange
=> submission, compliance
=> competition, contention, rivalry
=> resistance
=> nonresistance
=> due process, due process of law
=> action
=> legalization, legalisation, legitimation
=> separation
=> integration, integrating, desegregation
=> cooperation
=> brainstorming
=> assembly, assemblage, gathering
=> attendance, attending
=> nonattendance
=> return, paying back, getting even
=> democratization, democratisation
=> engagement, participation, involvement, involution
=> non-engagement, nonparticipation, non-involvement
=> ethnic cleansing
=> socialization, socialisation
HAS INSTANCE=> Restoration
Sense 4
rival, challenger, competitor, competition, contender
> contestant
=> agonist
=> athlete, jock
=> defaulter
=> entrant
=> long shot
=> loser, also-ran
=> opposition, opponent, opposite
=> outsider
=> player, participant
=> pothunter
=> qualifier
=> rival, challenger, competitor, competition, contender
=> starter
=> winner, victor
=> withdrawer
Meronyms of noun competition
4 senses of competition
Sense 1
competition
=> business relation
HAS MEMBER: customer, client
Sense 4
rival, challenger, competitor, competition, contender
=> contestant
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
HAS PART: personality
HAS PART: trait
HAS PART: character, fiber, fibre
HAS PART: thoughtfulness
HAS PART: responsibility, responsibleness
HAS PART: integrity
HAS PART: nature
HAS PART: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
=> organism, being
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
HAS PART: cell
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
HAS PART: energid, protoplast
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
HAS PART: cytoskeleton
HAS PART: microsome
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
HAS PART: achromatin
HAS PART: linin
HAS PART: chromosome
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
HAS PART: chromatid
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
HAS PART: telomere
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
HAS PART: vacuole
HAS PART: body part
HAS PART: corpus
Holonyms of noun competition
Grep of noun competition
athletic competition
competition
price competition
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