opponent
part of speech
noun (an opponent, opponents)
meaning for a pupil
1) A person or team that you play, compete or fight against. tree →
2) A person who disagrees with an idea or plan and argues against it. tree →
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 →
- My opponent in the chess game was very clever. tree →
- The boxer knocked his opponent down. tree →
- Our team's opponents wore red shirts. tree →
- Respect your opponent, even if you lose. tree →
- Opponents of the plan wrote letters to the newspaper. tree →
- She beat every opponent in the tournament. tree →
- He soon proved that he was no unworthy pupil of Eurytus, for he signally defeated all his opponents. tree →
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.
- A straw man is a scarecrow version of what your opponent said.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «opponent» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.