Rival

A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.

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.

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

To stand in competition with; to strive to gain some object in opposition to; as, to rival one in love.

To strive to equal or exel; to emulate.

To be in rivalry.

the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing"