contestant
noun
con·tes·tant
kən-ˈte-stənt 
also ˈkän-ˌte-
Synonyms
Examples of contestant in a Sentence
The contestant who catches the most fish wins.
The winning contestants will receive a cash prize.
Recent Examples on the Web
Tran was a contestant on season 28 of The Bachelor but was eliminated in week 7.
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Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 12 July 2024
Check out the season 3 contestants below, including the biggest clues about their famous relations and our own predictions about which celebrity each player is related to.
—Jillian Sederholm, EW.com, 11 July 2024
The six-part series will follow five U.K. contestants as they’re flown to South Korea and put through a rigorous 100-day K-pop training course in the hope of emerging as the world’s biggest new boy band.
—K.j. Yossman, Variety, 11 July 2024
That is not the case with these contestants, whose images were created solely using programs such as Open AI’s DALL·E 3, Midjourney or Stable Diffusion, and whose speeches and posts are generated by programs like ChatGPT.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 11 July 2024
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Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 12 July 2024
Check out the season 3 contestants below, including the biggest clues about their famous relations and our own predictions about which celebrity each player is related to.
—Jillian Sederholm, EW.com, 11 July 2024
The six-part series will follow five U.K. contestants as they’re flown to South Korea and put through a rigorous 100-day K-pop training course in the hope of emerging as the world’s biggest new boy band.
—K.j. Yossman, Variety, 11 July 2024
That is not the case with these contestants, whose images were created solely using programs such as Open AI’s DALL·E 3, Midjourney or Stable Diffusion, and whose speeches and posts are generated by programs like ChatGPT.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 11 July 2024
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“Contestant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contestant. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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