competition

/ˌkɒmpəˈtɪʃən/

意味: 競争、コンテスト

例文: Momo won the staring competition with a pillow.
　　  モモが枕とのにらめっこ大会で優勝。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: fierce competition (激しい競争), enter a competition (競争に参加する), healthy competition (健全な競争)

定義: 競争とは、複数の人やグループが同じ目標を達成しようとする状況です。たとえば、スポーツの試合やビジネスの市場で、誰が一番になるかを競います。競争は、努力を促し、成長を助けることがありますが、時にはストレスを引き起こすこともあります。

competitionは約10,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers
Noun: an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants
Noun: the act of competing as for profit or a prize
Noun: the contestant you hope to defeat

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The competition starts at noon tomorrow.(大会は明日の正午に始まります。)
She won the competition last year.(彼女は昨年の大会で優勝しました。)
Many teams entered the competition this season.(今シーズン、多くのチームが大会に参加しました。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: business competition can be fiendish at times
Noun: the teams were in fierce contention for first place
Noun: he had respect for his rivals
Noun: he wanted to know what the competition was doing

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): challenger, competition, competitor, contender, contention, contest, rival, rivalry

Antonyms(反意語): cooperation

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): business relation, contestant, group action, social event

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): action, affair, agonist, assembly, athlete, attendance, brainstorming, clientage, communalism, competition, confederation, conflict, contest, cooperation, coup d’etat, decolonization, defaulter, democratization, disbandment, disestablishment, due process, engagement, entrant, ethnic cleansing, exchange, integration, internationalization, legalization, long shot, loser, military action, nationalization, non-engagement, nonattendance, nonresistance, opposition, outsider, player, pothunter, procession, qualifier, rally, resistance, return, revolution, rival, separation, show, social activity, social control, socialization, stampede, starter, submission, transaction, vote, winner, withdrawer

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): athletic contest, bout, champion, championship, chicken, cliffhanger, comer, contest, dogfight, field trial, finalist, foe, front-runner, game, king, match, playoff, price war, race, runner-up, scratch, semifinalist, series, spelling bee, street fighter, tier, tilter, tournament, trial

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: challenge, compete, contend, rival, rivalrous

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: general

Grammatical Notes:

countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞): co

Suffixes(接尾辞): ition

Exam Level

大学受験レベル

英検準2級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1

Movies(映画): The Bad Guys

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: anticipation, negative