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Participant in a deciding game
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finalist
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Word definitions for finalist in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE national ▪ As a National Merit finalist , with her Virgil and calculus and swim-ming championships, Celestine had her choice of colleges. ■ NOUN cup ▪ But at Stradey, at the rematch of last season's Cup finalists ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a contestant who reaches the final stages of a competition
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Finalist \Fi"nal*ist\, n. (Sports) Any of the players who meet in the final round of a tournament in which the losers in any round do not play again.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"competitor remaining after eliminations," 1896, from final + -ist . Earlier "one who believes the end has been reached" (1883).
Usage examples of finalist.
If the finalist in his place was supposed to be Chalaine, the sorcerer chosen to face her should be keyed to her.
Monday evening, you have not been chosen as a finalist for the Miss Yorkville 2001 title.
He has also showed up on the Hugo final ballot, as well as being a finalist for the British Fantasy Award, the John W.
It won the Nebula Award for 1983, and was also a Hugo Finalist that year.
Now all he had to do was wander round with a tray of drinks, making sure that he served the finalist, Hilary Frampton.
He has several times been a finalist for the Nebula Award, as well as for the World Fantasy Award and for the John W.
Nebula award for best novelette in 1967 and was a finalist for the Hugo in the same year.
Geri, Kyle, and I waited with all the animation of the teenaged finalist in one of her sulks.
Hugo and Nebula Awards finalist some twenty times-more than any other writer.
She has been a Nebula Awards finalist four of the seven years the awards have been presented.
She learned some time yesterday that her years of subtle lobbying and careful political contributions have at last paid off, that she is among the finalists for a vacancy on the federal court of appeals.
Miss Gebhearn, and I have the updated list of finalists in my briefcase.
Some of the finalists were unavailable, and they produced the replacements.
I write this in August, 1999, The History of Our World Beyond the Wave is one of the finalists for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for 1999.
The last round of trials had been fiercely difficult, enough to eliminate over a quarter of the finalists completely.