a person who takes part in a contest or competition 比賽者;競爭者 Please welcome our next contestant. 請歡迎我們的下一位競賽選手。 She had once been a contestant in the Miss World competition. 她曾經是世界小姐比賽的選手。 The show features six contestants from different parts of the country. 該節目由來自全國各地的六名參賽者組成。
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’.