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SEMIFINALIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of four competitors remaining in a tournament by elimination
Classified under:
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)