winner

One who has won or often wins.

Noun

  1. 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...
    • 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...
  2. 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:

Origin

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”).

Forms

winners

Antonyms

loser

Derived

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