transcription, транскрипция: [ raɪv(ə)l ]
( rivals, rivalling, rivalled)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
Note: in AM, use 'rivaling', 'rivaled'
1.
Your rival is a person, business, or organization who you are competing or fighting against in the same area or for the same things.
The world champion finished more than two seconds ahead of his nearest rival...
N-COUNT
2.
If you say that someone or something has no rivals or is without rival , you mean that it is best of its type.
...a wonderfully fragrant wine which has no rivals in the Rhone...
N-COUNT : with brd-neg
3.
If you say that one thing rivals another, you mean that they are both of the same standard or quality.
Cassette recorders cannot rival the sound quality of CDs...
VERB : V n