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Winner

//ˈwɪnɚ// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

    "Michael Winner directed the 1974 action film "Death Wish"."

  2. 2
    A ghost town in Minnesota.
  3. 3
    A city, the county seat of Tripp County, South Dakota.
Noun
  1. 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 diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose."

  2. 2
    a person with a record of successes wordnet
  3. 3
    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."

  4. 4
    a gambler who wins a bet wordnet
  5. 5
    the contestant who wins the contest wordnet

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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