Usually means: Competition for prize, skill demonstration.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word contest:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. contest: Merriam-Webster
  2. contest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. contest: Collins English Dictionary
  5. contest: Vocabulary.com
  6. Contest, contest: Wordnik
  7. contest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. contest: Wiktionary
  9. contest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. contest: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. contest: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Contest, contest: Dictionary.com
  13. contest (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. contest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. CONTEST, Contest (Bottom), Contest, The Contest (DC Comics), The Contest (Seinfeld), The Contest, The contest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Contest: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. contest: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. contest: Rhymezone
  19. Contest: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. contest: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. contest: FreeDictionary.org
  22. contest: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. contest: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. contest: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. contest: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. contest: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. contest: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contest: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. CONTEST: Acronym Finder
  3. contest: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Contest: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See contestable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) Controversy; debate.
noun:  (uncountable) Struggle for superiority; combat.
noun:  (countable) A competition.
verb:  (intransitive) To contend.
verb:  (transitive) To call into question; to oppose.
verb:  (transitive) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.
verb:  (law) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course of law.

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