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winner
[ win-er ]
noun
All three winners received plaques for their winning presentations.
A yearling Teeswater sheep took the limelight yesterday when it was crowned the overall winner of the interbreed Wool on the Hoof competition.
- a person or thing that is marked by consistently or thoroughly excellent quality, performance, etc. ( loser def 2c ):
This brownie recipe is a real winner—I’ve made it countless times and it always turns out beautifully.
winner
/ ˈɪə /
noun
- a person or thing that wins
- informal.a person or thing that seems sure to win or succeed
Other Word Forms
- ԴDz·ɾ·Ա noun
Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- winner take(s) all. winner take all
Example Sentences
Coronation Street star Jack P Shepherd has been crowned the winner of this year's Celebrity Big Brother.
The championship game of the Boras Classic matching the baseball winners of the Southern California and Northern California divisions will take place at noon Saturday at the University of San Diego.
“The economy does best when government doesn’t pick winners and losers,” said Wayne Winegarden, senior fellow of business and economics at Pacific Research Institute, a California-based think tank that advocates for free markets.
Liverpool appear certain to win the Premier League and could seal the title this weekend, but picking the FA Cup winners is a much tougher task.
Two-time winners Forest have won the European Cup on two occasions since they last won the FA Cup win in 1958-59.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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