winner
nounUK /ˈwɪnə/ · US /ˈwɪnɚ/
Etymology Inherited from Middle English wynner, wynnere, equivalent to win + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Winner (“winner”), West Frisian winner (“winner”), Dutch winner and winnaar (“winner”), German Low German Winner, Gewinner (“winner”), German Gewinner (“winner”), Danish vinder (“winner”), Swedish vinnare (“winner”), Norwegian vinner (“winner”).
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One who has won or often wins.
- Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- Remember Rappin' Duke? Duh-ha, duh-ha You never thought that hip-hop would take it this far Now I'm in the limelight 'cause I rhyme tight Time to get paid, blow up like the World Trade Born sinner, the opposite of a winner Remember when I used to eat sardines for dinner1994, 0:41 from the start, in Juicy (Hip Hop), spoken by The Notorious B.I.G.:
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Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports A point or goal that wins a competition.
- It was a fitting scoreline on the club's landmark anniversary, and appropriate that Van Persie should get the winner.2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1-0 Everton”, in BBC Sport:
- Antonyms
- loser
- Derived terms
- bad winner, breadwinner, game-winner, prizewinner, prize winner, sand winner, sore winner, the winner takes it all, vote-winner, winner-take-all, winner take all, winner-takes-all, winner takes all