noun a claim or demand.
2. challenge ·noun to claim as due; to demand as a right.
3. challenge ·vi to assert a right; to claim a place.
4. challenge ·noun to censure; to blame.
5. challenge ·noun to object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court.
6. challenge ·noun to call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat.
7. challenge ·noun the opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.
8. challenge ·noun to call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy.
9. challenge ·noun the act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign.
10. challenge ·noun to take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation.
11. challenge ·noun to object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter.
12. challenge ·noun an exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. the challenge must be made when the ballot is offered.
13. challenge ·noun to question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with "who comes there?".
14. challenge ·noun an invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
15. challenge ·noun an exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause.