• Winner

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /ˈwɪnÉ™/
    • US IPA: /ˈwɪnÉš/
    • Rhymes: -ɪnÉ™(ɹ)
    • Homophones: winter some North American dialects

    Full definition of winner

    Noun

    winner

    (plural winners)
    1. One who has won or often wins.
      • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, Mr. Pratt's Patients Chapter 5, 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.
    2. (sports) A point or goal that wins a competition.
      • 2011, December 10, David Ornstein, Arsenal 1-0 Everton, It was a fitting scoreline on the club's landmark anniversary, and appropriate that Van Persie should get the winner.

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