“Rival” is a masculine given name, it is derived from Hebrew portmanteau word of “Raphael”, combined from rāp̄ā (רָפָא, ‘he has healed’) and ēl (אֵל, ‘God’), thus it can be roughly translated as ‘He who has been healed by God’ or ‘He who has been restored by God’.

This name is popular in Indonesia and Western Europe, and can be spelled as Reval, Revaldi, Rivaldi, Rafael, Raphael, Raphaël, Raffael, Raffaello, Raffiel, Refoel, Raffaele, or Refael depending on the language. In Brazil and Portugal, the given name “Rivaldo” also share similar root and meaning.

The person named as “Rival” is loyal, compassionate, and affectionate. He likes the challenges and has a flexible personality. He wanted to live in peace and desired intellectual conformity with his mate.
“Hi, Rival! how are you today?”
“Hello, Rival! nice to meet you!”
“Would you love to help me with this, Rival?”
“I think Rival is eligible to become the leader of the team”
“I talked to Rival yesterday”
“Rival told me he's alright, but I don't think he is”
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When your wife / girlfriend pulls the blanket to her own side with such a force not even god can stop her.
Hey man did you sleep well last night?
No my girl was using the power that rivals god, so I was freezing all night.
I know the feeling.
by Vaxazie April 12, 2017
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The best coffee shop around. Nothing but good times and good vibes. You can’t be in a bad mood after having some rival coffee.
by Tsweeezy November 24, 2021
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A Youtuber and twitch creator who mainly makes COD Warzone videos and some fortnite and Minecraft videos.
Have you seen the Youtuber Flux rivals yet?
by Easter Jack January 20, 2021
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a person who has become so on edge they start to say feck, frik and bacon alot dont approch them when this happens or they will eat your hair and you will go bald
oh my shiz i told him not to approch that "rival browner" damm he's gunner go bald now !!!!
by JohnnyMcFishweed !!! October 8, 2008
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When you're playing Mario Kart and take out the person in front of you to take the lead, only for another player to show up and claim it out of nowhere.
"I knocked out Yoshi to reach 1st, but then Shy Guy showed up as a replacement rival.
by hoppingicon January 7, 2023
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A dude competing for a chick's affections who brings legal action against her for some ruined-romance-related matter, such as her not "being loyal" to or spending a promised amount of time with him, failing to return money dat he'd loaned her and she'd promised to pay back if she started dating someone else, etc.
A lady should be very careful how she treats the special men in her life --- a rival SUITOR can quickly become a rival SUEDHER; this term can also sometimes even mean one of two or more "old flame" plaintiffs who ALL feel dat she has wronged them in some way.
by QuacksO April 2, 2023
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