contestant vs competition

competition vs contestant

contestant and competition both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
contestant	Yes	No	No	No
competition	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, competition is a hyponym of contestant; that is, competition is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than contestant:

contestant: a person who participates in competitions
competition: the contestant you hope to defeat

Other hyponyms of contestant include agonist, athlete, jock, defaulter, entrant, long shot, also-ran, loser, opponent, opposite, opposition, outsider, participant, player, pothunter, qualifier, challenger, competitor, contender, rival, starter, victor, winner, withdrawer.

contestant (noun)	competition (noun)
a person who participates in competitions	the act of competing as for profit or a prize
a person who dissents from some established policy	an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants
	the contestant you hope to defeat
	a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers

Difference between contestant and competition

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