winner

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person, team, or animal that wins a competition.

   The winner of the race received a gold medal.

2. 2
   noun

   A successful person, thing, or idea.

   Everyone agreed her new design was a real winner.

3. 3
   noun

   The point or goal that wins a game.

   He scored the winner in the final minute.

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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