a person who takes part in a contest or competition 比赛者;竞争者 Please welcome our next contestant. 请欢迎我们的下一位竞赛选手。 She had once been a contestant in the Miss World competition. 她曾经是世界小姐比赛的选手。 The show features six contestants from different parts of the country. 该节目由来自全国各地的六名参赛者组成。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryContestant is used after these nouns:- beauty
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from French, present participle of contester, from Latin contestari ‘call upon to witness’, from con- ‘together’ + testare ‘to witness’.