Crossword clues for contestant
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contestant \Con*test"ant\, n. [Cf. F. contestant.] One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, from French contestant, present participle of contester (see contest (v.)).
"one who contests," from contestant (adj.). Popularized in U.S. Civil War, when it was a journalist's term for the combatants on either side.
Wiktionary
n. A participant in a contest
WordNet
Wikipedia
A contestant is someone who takes part in a competition, usually a professional competition or a game show on television. The participants competing against each other have to go through rounds. The winners may have to compete in later stages or rounds until there is just one winner.
Usage examples of "contestant".
She was a fashion plate who received a lot of grief for being the only known barbeque contestant with red, manicured nails.
The judges will go around to the various smokers and the contestants really carry on with lots of barbeque decor.
With a view to testing the truth of this testimony the contestants submitted the draft to scientific experts, who pronounced the red ink to be a product of eosine, a substance invented by a German chemist named Caro in the year 1874, and after that time imported to this country.
Cindee Maloo had let it slip that one of the Winner contestants had been killed during the mob action the previous night.
The Sage of Monrovia who lived with posterity eternally in his thoughts was just about the only contestant left in the field, and the 19-year-old disciple-insearchofa-Messiah helped distribute the pamphlets on all the ships he worked on at a time when, while it was not against the law, you were through working for that line if the officers ever caught you.
Under your instruction, Boralle North will now be entering the Olympiad on equal footing with all the other contestants.
Rory looked out over the white buildings that formed the housing quarters for the Olympiad contestants while Boralle fussed around the room behind him.
The vachette looked the other way, pretending to admire a herd of friendly cows grazing in the distance, and then, her head lowered, she charged, catching the contestant in the lower back and jabbing him, tossing him with her long, crooked horns.
As each one of them entered the changing room, he or she was handed one of the skintight bodysuits that was the uniform of contestants on the actual show itself.
She walked along the wooden platform, not hearing, but following the young contestants in IN S I L EN C E 121 front of her.
The contestants are seated on either side of a big table in the center of the room, and each contestant has three waiters.
In that event, assuming that rescue is possible, all three contestants will be removed from the course.
As contestants under extraordinary license, you are entitled to no direct awards, but your scores will be duly reported to the Zaroth Casino and the Mazeway Syndicate.
Pietro, so that you might meet some of my contestants at firsthand, the better to assist them as they go about their work for me.
Azzie made a short speech congratulating his contestants, driving home the premise of his play by pointing out that they had done well by simply going about their natural pursuits.