Rival /(?)/

1. A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner. [Obs.]

   If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.

2. One who is in pursuit of the same object as another; one striving to reach or obtain something which another is attempting to obtain, and which one only can posses; a competitor; as, rivals in love; rivals for a crown.

1. Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority; as, rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions.

   The strenuous conflicts and alternate victories of two rival confederacies of statesmen.

imp. & p. p. Rivaled; p. pr. & vb. n. Rivaling

1. To stand in competition with; to strive to gain some object in opposition to; as, to rival one in love.
2. To strive to equal or exel; to emulate.

   To rival thunder in its rapid course.

1. To be in rivalry. [Obs.]