Definition of rivalry

"rivalry" in the noun sense

1. competition, contention, rivalry

the act of competing as for profit or a prize

"the teams were in fierce contention for first place"

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Quotations for rivalry

Emulation adds its spur. [ Lucan ]

Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere. [ William Shakespeare ]

With women, friendship ends when rivalry begins.

Women do not disapprove their rivals; they hate them. [ James Parton ]

Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections. [ Chamfort ]

If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see the heart which others bleed for bleed for me. [ Congreve ]

Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy. [ Balzac ]

It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works: they have eyes only for spots and blemishes. [ Addison ]

If one must be rejected, one succeed, make him my lord within whose faithful breast is fixed my image, and who loves me best. [ Dryden ]

The only true and firm friendship is that between man and woman, because it is the only affection exempt from actual or possible rivalry. [ A. Comte ]

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. [ Addison ]

Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior. [ Plutarch ]

It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority. [ George Eliot ]

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent towards their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it. [ Bovee ]

With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. [ Macaulay ]

It may be laid down as a general rule that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only a second place. [ Fielding ]

rivalry in Scrabble®

The word rivalry is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters rivalry:

RIVALRY
(102 = 52 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word rivalry

RIVALRY
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RIVALRY
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RIVALRY
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RIVALRY
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In rivalry

RIVALRY
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RIVALRY
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RIVALRY
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RIVALRY
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RIVALRY
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rivalry in Words With Friends™

The word rivalry is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters rivalry:

RIVALRY
(113 = 78 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

rivalry

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word rivalry

RIVALRY
(113 = 78 + 35)
RIVALRY
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RIVALRY
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RIVALRY
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In rivalry

RIVALRY
(113 = 78 + 35)
RIVALRY
(107 = 72 + 35)
RIVALRY
(95 = 60 + 35)
RIVALRY
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Words within the letters of rivalry

2 letter words in rivalry (5 words)

3 letter words in rivalry (7 words)

4 letter words in rivalry (13 words)

5 letter words in rivalry (3 words)

7 letter words in rivalry (1 word)

rivalry + 2 blanks (1 word)

Words containing the sequence rivalry

Words that start with rivalry (1 word)

Words with rivalry in them (1 word)

Words that end with rivalry (1 word)

Word Growth involving rivalry

Shorter words in rivalry

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Longer words containing rivalry

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