CHALLENGER, noun 1. One who challenges; one who invites to a single combat; one who calls on another by way of defiance. 2. One who claims superiority; one who claims any thing as his right, or makes pretensions to it. 3. One who calls a juror, or a jury, from the trial of his cause.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI