Contest
Encounter
Encounter noun - A brief clash between enemies or rivals.
Contest is a synonym for encounter in joust topic. You can use "Contest" instead the word "Encounter" as a noun or a verb, if it concerns topics such as fight, battle, armed conflict.
Nearby Words: encountered, encountering
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- engagement and contest
- engagement and encounter
- brush and contest
- brush and encounter
- match and contest
- match and encounter
- meeting and contest
- meeting and encounter
- confrontation and contest
- confrontation and encounter
- struggle and contest
- struggle and encounter
- conflict and contest
- conflict and encounter
How words are described
| particular | particular contest | particular encounter |
| similar | similar contest | similar encounter |
| short | short contest | short encounter |
| single | single contest | single encounter |
| Other adjectives: simple, actual, entire, real, violent, dangerous, little, sexual, possible, deadly, next, last, previous, upcoming. | ||
Common collocations
| series | contest series | encounter series |
Both words in one sentence
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Unlike a Cat Fight, this is not an actual violent encounter — it may be a pillow fight (such as at a Slumber Party), a volleyball contest or Mud Wrestling.
Source: Fanservice Faux Fight -
Yuki and Sonya's "sex contest" for Gary's favors ends in a (pre-arranged) three-way encounter which ends when Yuki's issues kick in, again.
Source: Webcomic / Ménage à 3 -
In a joke Dragon Magazine contest in which gamers had to write about why they love Giant Space Hamsters, one entry claimed to love how, instead of using a miniature, they could set their pet hamster loose on the gaming table and have a really random encounter.
Source: Slurpasaur
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