adversary

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An enemy, opponent, or rival.

   He prepared carefully to face his toughest adversary.

From Middle English adversarie, from Anglo-Norman aversaire (in Wace's Life of Saint Margaret) and Old French aversier, aversaire (French adversaire), from Latin adversārius, from adversus (“turned toward”).

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