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We found 39 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word contention: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "contention" is defined. General (32 matching dictionaries) contention: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info] contention: Collins English Dictionary [home, info] contention: Vocabulary.com [home, info] contention: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info] contention: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info] Contention, contention: Wordnik [home, info] contention: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info] Contention: Wiktionary [home, info] contention: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info] contention: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info] contention: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info] contention: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info] Contention, contention: Dictionary.com [home, info] contention: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info] contention: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info] contention: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info] contention: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info] Contention (computer networking), Contention (disambiguation), Contention (telecommunications), Contention: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info] Contention: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info] contention: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info] contention: Rhymezone [home, info] Contention: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info] contention: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info] contention: Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words [home, info] contention: Free Dictionary [home, info] contention: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info] contention: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info] contention: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info] contention: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info] contention: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info] Art (1 matching dictionary) contention: Literary Criticism [home, info] Business (1 matching dictionary) contention: Legal dictionary [home, info] Computing (4 matching dictionaries) contention: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary [home, info] Contention: Linktionary Networking Glossary [home, info] contention: I T Glossary [home, info] contention: Encyclopedia [home, info] Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary) contention: Idioms [home, info]

Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (contention) ▸ noun:  a point asserted as part of an argument ▸ noun:  the act of competing as for profit or a prize ("The teams were in fierce contention for first place") ▸ noun:  a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement ▸ Word origin