SEMIFINALIST

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of four competitors remaining in a tournament by elimination

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("semifinalist" is a kind of...):

challenger; competition; competitor; contender; rival (the contestant you hope to defeat)

Derivation:

semifinal (one of the two competitions in the next to the last round of an elimination tournament)

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