WINNER • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Winner

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/wˈɪnər/ Listen

Winner

noun

The contestant who wins the contest. Synonym: victor.

A gambler who wins a bet.

A person with a record of successes. Synonyms: achiever, succeeder, success. "Only winners need apply" , "If you want to be a success you have to dress like a success"

See more definitions of Winner...

See images of 'Winner'

Antonyms of 'Winner'

Etymology of 'Winner'

Related searches:

Share |

"Winner" Quotes from Famous Books

... so every one tries to sit down. As there is one player too many some one must necessarily be left without a chair. That player has therefore to leave the game, another chair is taken away, and the music begins again. So on to the end, a chair and a player going after each round. The winner of the game is the one who, when only one chair is left, gets it. It is against the rules to move the chairs. A piano, it ought to be pointed out, is not absolutely necessary. Any form of music will do; or if there is no instrument some one may ...

— What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes • Dorothy Canfield Fisher

... on holmgang with thee, byrnie-clad or baresark,[*] and fight thee with axe or sword, or I will wrestle with thee, and Whitefire yonder shall be the winner's prize." ...

— Eric Brighteyes • H. Rider Haggard

... you ever get one of them streaky feelin's that all you got to do is put your money down an' pick a winner?" ...

— Smoke Bellew • Jack London

... remain where she was and find some means of earning her living. The possibility of having to do this was one which she had never before seriously considered, and the discovery that, as a bread-winner, she was likely to prove as helpless and ineffectual as poor Miss Silverton, was a severe shock to ...

— House of Mirth • Edith Wharton

... if I am ever to sue for my Charlotte's hand, I must present myself before her as the winner of the three thousand. Remembering this, I lifted Mr. Goodge's knocker, and presently found myself in ...

— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon

More quotes...