Winner Meaning
/ˈwɪnə/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounOne who has won or often wins.
nounA point or goal that wins a competition.
Sentence Examples
What criterion did you use when you elected this essay as the winner?
Dr. Yukawa, the Nobel prize winner, died in 1981.
The lucky winner gets an all-expenses-paid trip to Sydney.
CEFR Practice Quiz
After the final race, the crowd cheered for the ____ of the gold medal.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ of the competition was presented with a beautiful trophy and a several large cash prize early today.
Word Origin & History
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”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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 dinner"
— 1994, 0:41 from the start, in Juicy (Hip Hop), spoken by The Notorious B.I.G.:
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
After the final race, the crowd cheered for the ____ of the gold medal.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ of the competition was presented with a beautiful trophy and a several large cash prize early today.