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General (32 matching dictionaries)

1. contention: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
2. contention: Oxford Dictionaries [home, info]
3. contention: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
4. contention: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
5. contention: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
6. contention: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
7. Contention, contention: Wordnik [home, info]
8. contention: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
9. contention: Wiktionary [home, info]
10. contention: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
11. contention: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
12. contention: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
13. Contention, contention: Dictionary.com [home, info]
14. contention: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
15. contention: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
16. contention: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
17. contention: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
18. Contention (disambiguation), Contention (telecommunications), Contention: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
19. Contention: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
20. contention: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
21. contention: Rhymezone [home, info]
22. Contention: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
23. contention: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
24. contention: Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words [home, info]
25. contention: Free Dictionary [home, info]
26. contention: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info]
27. contention: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
28. contention: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
29. contention: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
30. contention: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Art (1 matching dictionary)

31. contention: Literary Criticism [home, info]

Business (1 matching dictionary)

32. contention: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)

33. contention: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary [home, info]
34. Contention: Linktionary Networking Glossary [home, info]
35. contention: I T Glossary [home, info]
36. contention: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

37. contention: Idioms [home, info]

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Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (contention) ▸ noun:  a point asserted as part of an argument ▸ noun:  the act of competing as for profit or a prize ("The teams were in fierce contention for first place") ▸ noun:  a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement ▸ Also see contentions ▸ Word origin ▸ Words similar to contention ▸ Usage examples for contention ▸ Popular adjectives describing contention ▸ Words that often appear near contention ▸ Rhymes of contention ▸ Invented words related to contention