Meanings (ES + gloss)
contrincante • oponente
One who opposes another; one who works or takes a position against someone or something; one who attempts to stop the progress of someone or something.
1720, Alexander Pope, The Iliad of Homer, London: Bernard Lintott, Volume 6, “Observations on the Twenty-Third Book,” no. 39, p. 136, In the Chariot-Race Achilles is represented as…
[…] he slid his right hand down to his left, and with the full swing of the weapon struck his opponent on the left side of the head, who instantly measured his length upon the gree…
adversario
One who opposes another; one who works or takes a position against someone or something; one who attempts to stop the progress of someone or something.
It is easier to confound than to convince an opponent; the former may be effected by a turn that has more happiness than truth in it.
“What more have you to say?” she asked, rather in the tone in which a person might address an opponent of adult age than such as is ordinarily used to a child.
opositor
One who opposes another; one who works or takes a position against someone or something; one who attempts to stop the progress of someone or something.
She was a dedicated opponent of the death penalty.
Their Oath is to maintain the Romish-Catholick Religion, and persecute all Opponents to it.
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