Enemy and Rivalry

Enemy

Enemy noun - One that is hostile toward another.

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Rivalry and enemy are semantically related in conflict topic. In some cases you can use "Rivalry" instead a noun "Enemy".

Rivalry noun - An earnest effort for superiority or victory over another.

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Enemy and rivalry are semantically related in conflict topic. Sometimes you can use "Enemy" instead a noun "Rivalry".

Nearby Word: rival

old	old enemy	old rivalry
particular	particular enemy	particular rivalry
natural	natural enemy	natural rivalry
friendly	friendly enemy	friendly rivalry
Other adjectives: true, nasty, strong, actual, real, big, great, bitter, main, personal, new, major, political, minor, deadly, mutual, greatest, said, biggest.

There used to be a sort of rivalry between Doctor Who and Primeval — enough that Doctor Who writer Paul Cornell joked that he wasn't sleeping with the enemy by writing a Primeval episode.

Source: Fandom Rivalry / Live-Action TV
Instead, D'Artagnan has a running rivalry with the Cardinal's dragon Rochefort and makes an intensely personal enemy of his agent Milady de Winter.

Source: It's Personal with the Dragon
This arch-enemy comic rivalry was taken Up to Eleven in the Fleetway comic Whizzer and Chips which was one comic which was made up of two comics and these two comics and their characters were archenemies with even more frequent 'raids' in the two comics than with the Beano and Dandy.

Source: Arch Enemy / Comic Books

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