CHALLENGERとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Inherited from 中期英語 chalengere, chalangeour, chalenger (“one who causes injury, or makes false charges or slanderous statements; one who disputes, disputant, objector; claimant”), and then partly from both of the following:

• From 中期英語 chalengen (“to accuse; to accuse falsely or maliciously, slander; to treat unjustly, wrong; to dispute, object; to make a claim or demand; to rebuke, scold; to issue a challenge to; etc.”) + -er, -ere (suffix forming agent nouns). Chalengen is derived from Anglo-Norman chalenger, and Old French chalenger, chalongier (“to challenge, dispute; to claim; etc.”) (modern French challenger), from Late Latin calumniāre, the second-person singular present active imperative or indicative of calumnior (“to accuse falsely; to make hurtful untrue comments about; etc.”), from Latin calumnia (“artifice, trickery; false accusation; false statement; etc.”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₁l-, *keh₁l- (“to beguile, deceive”)) + -or (the first-person singular present passive indicative of -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)).
• From Old French chalengeor (“claimant, plaintiff; false accuser, slanderer”) (modern French challengeur), from chalenger, chalongier (see above) + -eor (variant of -or (suffix forming agent nouns)).

By surface analysis, challenge (verb) +‎ -er (suffix forming agent nouns).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃælɪn(d)ʒə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃælənd͡ʒəɹ/
• ハイフネーション: chal‧leng‧er

名詞

challenger (plural challengers)

1. One who challenges.

   Synonyms: adversary, contender, disputer, opponent

   Antonym: nonchallenger

   • 1876, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Eloquence”, in Letters and Social Aims, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 103:

     [C]ertainly there is no true orator who is not a hero. […] He is challenger and must answer all comers.

   • 2020 March 14, Shane Goldmacher, “Throw out the debate Playbook: [Joe] Biden and [Bernie] Sanders to clash amid crisis”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 May 2023:

     Debates are often unpredictable, but it is especially hard to game out how this debate featuring a moderate standard-bearer and a liberal challenger will unfold and how people will process it. Hundreds of thousands of viewers, if not millions, will have been personally affected by Sunday, as public gathering spaces are shuttered, schools are closed and on Thursday the stock market plunged by the largest percentage in decades (it snapped back upward on Friday).

   • 2020 November 23, Scott Glover, Curt Devine, Drew Griffin, Scott Bronstein, “A Dark Money Mystery in Florida Centers on the Campaign of a Spoiler Candidate who Appeared to Help a Republican Win by 32 votes”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 27 October 2025, image caption:

     Candidates for a state senate seat race in South Florida in which a spoiler appeared to help Republican challenger Ileana Garcia unseat incumbent Democrat Jose Javier Rodriguez.

   1. One who confronts or opposes; a confronter, an opposer.

      challengers of traditional attitudes

   2. (games, sports) One who plays against the current champion of a contest or game in hopes of winning and becoming the new champion.

      The champion hopes to defeat his new challenger in the game to remain undefeated.

      One child stood as king of the hill, and tried to withstand the pushes and shoves of his challengers.

      • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 187, column 2:

        Roſ[alind]. Young man, haue you challeng'd Charles the VVraſtler? / Orl[ando]. No faire Princeſſe: he is the general challenger, I come but in as others do, to try vvith him the ſtrength of my youth.

   3. (chiefly law, obsolete) One who brings a legal claim; a claimant, a plaintiff; also, one who accuses; an accuser.
      • 1600, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “[Book III]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 117:

        Novv vvhen they vvere come before Appius, ſitting judicially upon his tribunall ſeate, the plaintife or challenger aforeſaid, declareth againſt her, […]

2. (tennis, also attributive) Often in the form Challenger: a match, tournament, or tour of the second-highest tier organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals.

別の表記

• (tennis match, tournament, or tour): Challenger

派生語

• Challenger
• Challenger Deep
• challenger bank
• multichallenger
• nonchallenger

参照

Further reading

• challenger (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia