A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner. [Obs.] If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste. Shak.
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. The strenuous conflicts and alternate victories of two rival confederacies of statesmen. Macaulay.
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 rival thunder in its rapid course. Dryden.
To be in rivalry. [Obs.] Shak.
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