FromMiddle Englishcontencion, borrowed fromOld Frenchcontencion, fromLatincontentio, contentionem, fromcontendō (past participlecontentus); equivalent tocontend +-tion (similar formation toattention).
- IPA(key): /kənˈtɛnʃən/
- Hyphenation:con‧ten‧tion
contention (countable anduncountable,pluralcontentions)
- Argument,contest,debate,strife,struggle.
- A point maintained in an argument, or a line of argument taken in its support; the subject matter of discussion of strife; a position taken or contended for.
It is mycontention that state lotteries are taxes on stupid people.
- (computing, telecommunications)Competition by parts of asystem or itsusers for a limitedresource.
Related terms ofcontention
contest, strife, struggle
- Bulgarian:състеза́ние (bg) n(sǎstezánie),съревнова́ние (bg)(sǎrevnovánie),спор (bg) m(spor)
- Catalan:disputa (ca) f,discòrdia (ca) f,litigi (ca) m
- Czech:soutěž (cs) f,soupeření n,soutěžení n
- Dutch:strijd (nl) m,ruzie (nl) f
- Finnish:väite (fi),väittely (fi)
- French:dispute (fr) f,discorde (fr) f,litige (fr) m
- Georgian:კამათი (ka)(ḳamati)
- German:Streit (de) m
- Irish:amarrán m,dréim f,bágh f(literary),coimhlint f,caismirt f
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish:خەبات (ckb)(xebat)
- Maori:taukumekume
- Norwegian:krangel m,strid m
- Occitan:contencion (oc) f,contèsta (oc) f,litigi (oc) m
- Ottoman Turkish:نزاع(nizaʿ),چكیش(çekiş)
- Portuguese:contenção (pt) f,contenda (pt) f
- Romanian:dispută (ro) f,discordie (ro) f,litigiu (ro) n
- Russian:спор (ru) m(spor),раздо́р (ru) m(razdór)
- Scottish Gaelic:ceallach m
- Spanish:contienda (es) f,contención (es) f(law or disused)
- Swedish:bråk (sv) n,dispyt (sv) n,dust (sv) n,gräl (sv) n,träta (sv) c,tvist (sv) c,tvistighet (sv) c
- Turkish:anlaşmazlık (tr),atışma (tr),kavga (tr),münakaşa (tr),tartışma (tr),uyuşmazlık (tr)
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point maintained in an argument
(computing, telecommunications) Competition for a limited resource.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “contention”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
- “contention”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
Borrowed fromLatincontentiō.
contention f (pluralcontentions)
- (intellectual)disposition,effort
- contention d’esprit ―(please add an English translation of this usage example)
- dispute,contention
- Synonyms:débat,dispute
- (medicine)immobilization,(psychiatry)restraint
Borrowed fromLatincontentio, contentionem. Cf. the inherited formcontençon, and see alsotençon.
contentionoblique singular, f (oblique pluralcontentions,nominative singularcontention,nominative pluralcontentions)
- dispute;quarrel;disagreement
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