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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Contender \Con*tend"er\, noun One who contends; a contestant.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
contender
noun: the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing" [syn: {rival}, {challenger}, {competitor}, {competition}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
61 Moby Thesaurus words for "contender": battler, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, blade, bravo, brawler, bully, bullyboy, combatant, competitor, contestant, corrival, disputant, duelist, emulator, enforcer, entrant, fencer, feuder, fighter, fighting cock, foilsman, gamecock, gladiator, goon, gorilla, hatchet man, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, jouster, knight, militant, player, plug-ugly, quarreler, rioter, rival, rough, rowdy, ruffian, sabreur, scrapper, scuffler, squabbler, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, the field, thug, tilter, tough, tussler, vier, wrangler
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