| contest | |
| 1. n. Controversy; debate. | |
| no contest | |
| 2. n. Struggle for superiority; combat. | |
| 3. n. A competition. | |
| The child entered the spelling contest. | |
| 4. v. (intransitive) To contend. | |
| I will contest for the open seat on the board. | |
| 5. v. To call into question; to oppose. | |
| The rival contested the dictator's re-election because of claims of voting irregularities. | |
| 6. v. To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend. | |
| The troops contested every inch of ground. | |
| 7. v. (legal) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course of law; to controvert. | |
