contestant
noun /kənˈtestənt/
/kənˈtestənt/
- a person who takes part in a contest or competition
- Please welcome our next contestant.
- She had once been a contestant in the Miss World competition.
- The show features six contestants from different parts of the country.
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’.