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# opponent

«opponent» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person or team that you play, compete or fight against** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an opponent, opponents)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person or team that you play, compete or fight against. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opponent/#m1)

2) A person who disagrees with an idea or plan and argues against it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opponent/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In sport, PE and games: shake hands with your opponent, respect your opponent, good sportsmanship. In chess and board games: «your opponent's move». In debates and politics: «opponents of the new law». In stories the hero faces a strong opponent.

### examples

- Shake hands with your opponent after the match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opponent/#x1)
- My opponent in the chess game was very clever. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opponent/#x2)
- The boxer knocked his opponent down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opponent/#x3)
- Our team's opponents wore red shirts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opponent/#x4)
- Respect your opponent, even if you lose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opponent/#x5)
- Opponents of the plan wrote letters to the newspaper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opponent/#x6)
- She beat every opponent in the tournament. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opponent/#x7)
- He soon proved that he was no unworthy pupil of Eurytus, for he signally defeated all his opponents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opponent/#x8)

### note

Countable: an opponent, opponents. Double «p», ends in «-ent». An opponent is not always an enemy: in sport you compete but can still be friends. Opposite: «teammate» or «supporter».

### In the corpora

- [Computer players in games are AI opponents, usually with difficulty levels that people set.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/11/)
- [A straw man is a scarecrow version of what your opponent said.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «opponent» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opponent/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.