Contestation

Definition: Contestation

Contestation

Noun

1. A dispute where there is strong disagreement; "they were involved in a violent argument".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "contestation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Etymology: Contestation \Con`tes*ta"tion\, noun. [Latin expression contestatio testimony: compare to the French expression contestation contesting.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Contestation

Contention

Contestation; struggle; belligerency; opposition.

Crosswords: Contestation

French (appeal, contestation, dissent, protest, question).

Notes sur la contestation (1974)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics (International Organization Readers) (reference)

• Le Je (U Illocutoire: Forme Et Contestation Dans Le Nouveau Roman Quebecois, Le) (reference)

• Pacifisme et dissuasion : la contestation pacifiste et l'avenir de la sécurité de l'Europe (reference)

• Self and Nation: Cagegorization, Contestation and Mobilization (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Contestation (reference)

• Contestation [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "contestation": in contestation. Additional references.

Albanian

diskutim (argument, argumentation, assessment, canvass, contest, debate, deliberation, discussion, disputation, dispute, eristic, logomachy, talk, treatment), çështje që diskutohet. (various references)

Arabic 

‏طعن قضائي (appeal, challenge), ‏خصام (argument, contention, contest, dispute, quarrel, row, ruction, squabble, war). (various references)

Bulgarian 

спор (altercation, argument, argumentation, contention, contest, controversy, difference, ding-dong, disputation, dispute, dissension, fight, jar, polemic, rift, run in, strife, variance, velitation, word, words), твърдение (affirmation, allegation, assertion, averment, claim, contention, position, predication, proposition, statement), оспорване (contravention, dispute, impugnment, litigation). (various references)

Chinese 

争论 (Argue, Argued, Arguing, Argumentative, Augmentative). (various references)

Czech

soutìžení (emulation). (various references)

Dutch

protestbeweging (contestation movement), betwisting van de rechten van de begunstigde in een verzekering (contestation of the right of the beneficiary of an insurance). (various references)

Finnish

vakuutuksen edunsaajan oikeuden kiistäminen (contestation of the right of the beneficiary of an insurance). (various references)

French

contestation. (various references)

German

Streit (argument, battle, Bicker, breeze, conflict, confliction, contention, controversy, disagreement, discord, dispute, feud, fight, moot, quarrel, squabble, strife, wrangle), Anfechtung (action for nullification, challenge, challenging, contesting, disputing, impeachment, temptation). (various references)

Hungarian

peresítés. (various references)

Korean 

논쟁 (argument, barney, Contention, Controversial, Controversies, Controversy, Wrangle, Wrangling). (various references)

Pig Latin

ontestationcay

Portuguese

contestação (answer, countercharge, plea), asserção (assertion, contention, predication, proposition), afirmação (affirmation, assertion, asseveration, averment, predication, pronouncement, proposition, protest, say, statement). (various references)

Romanian

litigiu (issue, litigation), disputã (close contest, contention, contest, controversy, disputation, dispute, duet, issue, splutter, strife), întâmpinare (greeting, honor, honour). (various references)

Russian 

соревнование (competition, contention, contest), борьба (action, battle, fight, fighting, fray, scuffle, strife, struggle, tussle, wrestle, wrestling). (various references)

Spanish

lucha (battle, cut, death-feud, fight, fighting, fray, grapple, scramble, scuffle, set to, strife, struggle, tug of war, tussle, wrestling). (various references)

Swedish

tvist (contention, controversy, dispute, feud, quarrel, strife), påstående (allegation, assertion, avowal, claim, contention, plea, predication, proposition, say so, statement), dispyt (argument, disputation, dispute), bestridande (challenge, denial, filling, traverse). (various references)

Turkish

yarışma (bout, competition, contest, emulation, event, match, meet, racing, rivalry), tartışma (altercation, argument, argumentation, bickering, brawl, breeze, broil, bust up, contention, contest, controversy, cross talk, debate, disagreement, discussion, disputation, dispute, hassle, jangle, moot, parley, quarrel, rap, row, set to, shooting match, spar, sparring, teach-in, wordy warfare, wrangle), inkâr (abnegation, contest, contradiction, denegation, denial, dereliction, disallowance, disavowal, ignoring, impugnment, nay, negation, refusal, repudiation), çekişme (bickering, chaffer, cliffhanger, competition, conflict, contention, contest, controversy, debate, duel, fight, quarreling, rivalry, strife, tug of war). (various references)

Ukrainian

спорне питання, оспорювання. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự tranh luận điều tranh cãi, sự tranh cãi. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "contestation": contestations. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Contestation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Connectathon, contestion. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ostentation.

-2 letters: attentions, contestant.

-3 letters: attention, conations, cotenants, intonates, isooctane, notations, taconites.

-4 letters: aconites, actinons, ancients, canniest, canoeist, canonise, canonist, cattiest, coattest, conation, connotes, constant, contains, contents, coonties, cotenant, enations, entastic, insectan, instance, intonate, nattiest, nictates, notation, oscitant, ostinato, sanction, sonantic, sonatine, sonicate, stannite, stenotic, taconite, tactions, tetanics, tinstone, tonetics, tontines.

-5 letters: acetins, acinose, aconite.

+1 letter: contestations.

+4 letters: magnetostriction.

+5 letters: compartmentations, constitutionalize, countertraditions, magnetostrictions.