WINNER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does winner mean? 

• WINNER (noun)
  The noun WINNER has 3 senses:

1. the contestant who wins the contest

2. a gambler who wins a bet

3. a person with a record of successes

  Familiarity information: WINNER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WINNER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The contestant who wins the contest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

victor; winner

Hypernyms ("winner" is a kind of...):

contestant (a person who participates in competitions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "winner"):

contestee (a winner (of a race or an election etc.) whose victory is contested)

medalist; medallist (someone who has won a medal)

upsetter (an unexpected winner; someone who defeats the favorite competitor)

walloper (a winner by a wide margin)

Antonym:

loser (a contestant who loses the contest)

Derivation:

win (be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A gambler who wins a bet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("winner" is a kind of...):

gambler (a person who wagers money on the outcome of games or sporting events)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "winner"):

lottery winner; prize winner (the winner of a lottery)

Antonym:

loser (a gambler who loses a bet)

Derivation:

win (be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious)

win (win something through one's efforts)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A person with a record of successes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

achiever; succeeder; success; winner

Context example:

if you want to be a success you have to dress like a success

Hypernyms ("winner" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "winner"):

first lady (the leading woman in an art or profession)

great (a person who has achieved distinction and honor in some field)

highflier; highflyer (a person of great ability and ambition)

natural (someone regarded as certain to succeed)

sleeper (an unexpected achiever of success)

Derivation:

win (win something through one's efforts)

win (attain success or reach a desired goal)

 Context examples 

I was left there alone—winner of the field.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He had played nearly every day at one club or other, but he was a cautious player, and usually rose a winner.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You may receive an inheritance this year or be the top winner in a charity raffle.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He's a hard nail, is Jack, and a dead shot, too, but you can't leave a Grand National winner to die like that—what?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Winner of the men's division, Cherono, posted a time of 2:05:45.

(Kenya's Brigid Kosgei sets new world record at Chicago Marathon, Wikinews)

The stakes are two thousand pounds against a thousand, two hundred to be paid by the winner to his man; play or pay.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There will be no winner in this cosmic clash, but at least the Milky Way will be on an equal footing with its cosmic rival.

(No Winner in Milky Way-Andromeda Clash, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics in Stockholm, Sweden.

(Swedish academy announces 2019 Nobel Prize winners in physics, Wikinews)

New research reveals how two penguin species, the gentoo and the chinstrap, have dealt with more than a century of human impacts in Antarctica, and why some species are winners and others are losers in this rapidly changing ecosystem.

(Whaling and climate change lead to 100 years of feast or famine for Antarctic penguins, National Science Foundation)

Consequently the advertisement was withdrawn at a dead loss—for as to sherry, my poor dear mother's own sherry was in the market then—and ten years afterwards, the caul was put up in a raffle down in our part of the country, to fifty members at half-a-crown a head, the winner to spend five shillings.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)