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WANNABE [3 records]

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Record 1 2005-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Games and Competitions (Sports)
  • General Sports Regulations
  • Various Sports (General)
  • Team Sports (General)
DEF

challenger: A person who competes with you for something that you already have, for example for the leadership of a political party or for a sports championship.

DEF

contender: A team which has good chances of winning a championship or a title.

OBS

The terms "pretender" and "contender" are often used as synonyms of "challenger" in a sports context.

OBS

Related term: wannabe [colloquial - deformation of "want-to-be"].

Key term(s)
  • wannabe

French

Domaine(s)
  • Jeux et compétitions (Sports)
  • Règlements généraux des sports
  • Sports divers (Généralités)
  • Sports d'équipe (Généralités)
DEF

aspirant : Personne qui aspire à un titre, à une place.

DEF

aspirant au titre : Équipe dont les succès successifs lui confèrent de bonnes chances de remporter un championnat.

CONT

En battant Michael Chang, Agassi a démontré qu'il est un sérieux aspirant au titre de Sampras.

CONT

L'Allemand Boris Becker, en forme depuis Wimbledon, et Michael Chang, dont le jeu de jambes convient parfaitement à ce tournoi très éprouvant, apparaissent comme de sérieux prétendants [...] Sanchez, Martinez et la Française Mary Pierce apparaissent comme les plus sérieuses prétendantes à la succession de Graf.

CONT

Conchita Martinez, l'une des plus solides prétendantes au titre.

PHR

aspirant logique au titre; aspirant logique au championnat.

OBS

Le terme «aspirant» s'emploie surtout au Canada.

Spanish

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Record 2 1999-11-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
CONT

The wannabee-journalists were mostly young women a year out of university with no experience, no technique, an approved claim to talent and awesome confidence. (The Guardian, 15 Sept. 1988, p. 10;2).

DEF

aspiring.

Key term(s)
  • wanna-be
  • wanna be
  • wanna-bee
  • wannabie

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
CONT

Ces amateurs velléitaires et stériles (Proust).

Spanish

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Record 3 1999-11-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Neology and Linguistic Borrowing
  • Translation (General)
DEF

A person who aspires to something

DEF

Anyone who wants to be someone else.

CONT

Bimbo wannabees are known as bimbettes. (The Guardian, 11 Nov. 1987, p. 40.).

OBS

First used in the mid eighties to refer to white youth in the US who dressed and behaved like members of black gangs.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Néologie et emprunts
  • Traduction (Généralités)
DEF

Personne qui a des intentions faibles et ne se décide pas à agir.

CONT

ce qu'on appelle un velléitaire.

Spanish

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