Challenger

Definitions

1. A space shuttle, named after HMS Challenger (1858), destroyed on January 28, 1986 with loss of its seven-member crew.
2. A steam locomotive of the 4-6-6-4 wheel arrangement.
3. One who challenges.
4. Alternative letter-case form of challenger (“a match, tournament, or tour of the second-highest tier organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals”).
   also, alt-of, attributive
5. One who confronts or opposes; a confronter, an opposer.
6. One who plays against the current champion of a contest or game in hopes of winning and becoming the new champion.
7. One who brings a legal claim; a claimant, a plaintiff; also, one who accuses; an accuser.
   obsolete
8. Often in the form Challenger: a match, tournament, or tour of the second-highest tier organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals.
   also, attributive

Equivalents

13 more languages

العربيةالمتحدي

Bosanskiizazivačkonkurentизазивач

Suomihaastaja

हिन्दीदावेदार

Hrvatskiizazivačkonkurentизазивач

Bahasa Indonesiapenantang

日本語チャレンジャー挑戦者

한국어챌린저

Latinaprovocatorprovocatrix

Polskikonkurent

Српскиizazivačkonkurentизазивач

ไทยคู่แข่ง

Українськапретендент

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.”

“challengers of traditional attitudes”

“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.”

“Novv vvhen they vvere come⟳ before Appius, ſitting judicially upon his tribunall ſeate, the plaintife or challenger aforeſaid, declareth againſt her, […]”

“American Locomotive Company, which introduced the 4-6-6-4 (on Union Pacific) in 1936, constructed more Challengers than any other builder and, in Northern Pacific's Z-8 class, built the heaviest. NP owned 48 4-6-6-4's in three classes.”

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