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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RI'VALRY, n. [from rival.] Competition; a strife or effort to obtain an object which another is pursuing; as rivalry in love; or an endeavor to equal or surpass another in some excellence; emulation; as rivalry for superiority at the bar or in the senate.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the act of competing as for profit or a prize; "the teams were in fierce contention for first place" [syn: competition, contention, rivalry] [ant: cooperation]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -ries) Date: 1598 the act of rivaling ; the state of being a rival ; competition

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) the state or an instance of being rivals; competition.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rivalry Ri"val*ry, n.; pl. Rivalries. The act of rivaling, or the state of being a rival; a competition. ``Keen contention and eager rivalries.'' --Jeffrey. Syn: Emulation; competition. See Emulation.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(rivalries) Rivalry is competition or fighting between people, businesses, or organizations who are in the same area or want the same things. ...the rivalry between the Inkatha and the ANC... N-VAR

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Competition, emulation, rivalship, strife, contention.

Moby Thesaurus

antagonism, antipathy, bad blood, clashing, collision, competition, competitiveness, conflict, contention, contrariety, contrariness, controversy, covetousness, cross-purposes, cutthroat competition, disaccord, discord, dispute, dissension, emulation, enmity, enviousness, envy, feud, fractiousness, friction, gamesmanship, grudging, grudgingness, hostility, inimicalness, invidia, invidiousness, jealousy, jockeying, lifemanship, negativeness, noncooperation, obstinacy, one-upmanship, oppugnancy, perverseness, recalcitrance, refractoriness, repugnance, strife, striving, struggle, tug-of-war, uncooperativeness, vying, warfare