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contenders

contenders is the plural of contender.

Meaning of contender

Noun

contender (plural contenders)

  1. Someone who competes with one or more other people.
  2. Someone who has a viable chance of winning a competition.
    • In April 2014, towards the end of Özil’s first season at Arsenal – which had been marked by highs and lows – Wenger predicted the German would be a contender for the player of the year awards in 2014‑15.2016 January 1, David Hytner, The Guardian

Questions about contenders

What is contenders the plural of?
Contenders is the plural of contender.

Words near contenders in the dictionary

  1. contended
  2. contended with
  3. contendent
  4. contendents
  5. contender
  6. contenders
  7. contendership
  8. contendest
  9. contendeth
  10. contending
  11. contending with

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Adapted from Wiktionary: contenders (page history and authors); contender (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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