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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
winner
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a lucky winner
▪ The lucky winner of the competition will be announced next week.
a medal winner
▪ Johnson was a silver medal winner at the Olympic Games.
a prize winner
▪ Congratulations to all the prize winners!
an award winner
▪ The award winners will be announced in December.
be onto a good thing/a winner
▪ I think she’s onto a real winner with this song.
past president/member/winner etc
▪ a past president of the golf club
the winner of a competition
▪ Jane was the clear winner of the competition.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ Judas has been the big winner lately, now he'd be cockier than ever, and it was my fault.
▪ You oughta know who was the big winner at the Grammy Awards Wednesday night.
▪ Read in studio and finally congratulations to the first big Central South winner of the New Year.
▪ The hotel industry was the biggest winner.
▪ This rather overlooked the biggest winner of them all.
▪ Should incorporation pass, Slosser will be a big winner.
▪ Ride a big winner, hit the headlines - that's racing.
▪ The big winner in New Hampshire is, of course, President Clinton.
clear
▪ Toby Ewers put in another sterling performance in the youths mile, finishing a clear winner in 4 mins. 44.
▪ Once again, a clear winner is Lincoln National Multi Fund.
▪ Once the zoologists had taken account of the difference in weight, the camels emerged as clear winners.
▪ The only other clear winners from a protracted contest would be both firms' lawyers.
▪ Once again it was the Club Secretary Eddie who came to the fore maintaining his good form and romping home a clear winner.
▪ On a risk-adjusted basis, repaying debt is the clear winner.
▪ While no clear winner emerged, most commentators agreed that Kerrey's performance was the most effective.
▪ Yarrow was a clear winner in the competition.
eventual
▪ I was one shot behind eventual winner Steve Richardson after three rounds and then shot a 79.
▪ Some observers feared a chaotic situation that could deprive the eventual winner of the legitimacy needed to govern.
▪ With so many Bay Area districts solidly Democratic, the winners of the primaries are surely the eventual winners in November.
▪ No matter who finally has the lion's share of the market, the eventual winner will be the user.
▪ Colchester were defeated in the semi-final of the runners-up competition by Rochford, the eventual winners.
lucky
▪ But don't worry if you're not one of the lucky winners.
▪ Anyone can enter paintings in any style, and the lucky winners get hung, in rather close proximity, and sold.
▪ The Glengormley girl was the lucky winner of an Apple Mac computer in the centre's back to school competition.
▪ The first lucky winner is David Pitchforth for his Hudson Hawk maps.
▪ A well stocked tombola provided many potential Christmas presents for the lucky winners.
▪ The lucky winner will be announced in our Christmas magazine.
▪ Look out for this years' Lillywhites evening in November, and see if you can be a lucky winner.
▪ You could be the lucky winner of a free course of pectoral pump treatments, or a brand new Cadillac convertible.
national
▪ The 3 times Grand national winner never raced at Cheltenham.
▪ Then one realizes that virtually no one else seems willing to say such rude things about the latest National Book Award winner.
▪ The Independent was the overall national newspaper winner in 1988 and 1987.
▪ He is on my short list as a possible Grand National winner.
▪ The premonitions began to pour in about Grand National winners, storm warnings, earthquakes and other disasters.
▪ Grand National winner Party Politics was cut two points to 12-1 by Ladbrokes.
outright
▪ Enter the new championship, with a complicated set of rules designed to promote an outright winner at the end of it.
▪ But the outright winner has to be the microwave.
overall
▪ Here are some of the best, along with the overall winner.
▪ Candidates get three delegates for each congressional district won, and 29 bonus delegates go to the overall statewide winner.
▪ Both women have maximum Grand Prix points and whoever wins their next head-to-head on Friday could be the overall winner.
▪ This year's overall winner was the reconstruction of the Kennet and Avon canal from Bristol to Reading.
▪ Entry is free and there is £100 up for grabs with the overall winner receiving the Roy Tongue Cup.
▪ An overall winner and a runner-up were chosen from the many entries and their reviews were featured in TeleClub a few weeks ago.
▪ Category three saw Jasper Sharpe outreach everyone to gain 127 points and he looks favourite for an overall winner.
▪ The Independent was the overall national newspaper winner in 1988 and 1987.
previous
▪ The Lisburn event traditionally draws big names, as a glance through the previous winners list confirms.
▪ Fondmort was third to two previous winners at Newbury after his success here.
▪ The highest placed North-Easterner was Simon Gillam from Newcastle, a previous winner, who was sixth.
▪ She is likely to follow up on her solid victory over previous winner Ribhi at York in October.
▪ Nadobenko, although a previous stage winner, had started the final stage almost seven minutes down on Lillywhite overall.
real
▪ But no-one was in doubt that the real winner was disabled sport.
▪ But apathy will be the real winner.
▪ Recall a situation when you knew you had done something well, and you felt like a real winner.
▪ The real winner, therefore, is science.
▪ The real winners of the revolution were neither the women nor the men, but the people of Paris.
▪ Goal of the week goes to Oxford's Alex Dyer: a real winner.
▪ The real winners are farmers who will raise good crops this year and sell them at the current dizzying prices.
■ NOUN
award
▪ There were sixteen award winners and eighteen commendations.
▪ The Eclipse Award winners for 1995 will be announced today.
▪ The category award winners ranged from a housing co-operative in Dundee to a children's play area in an Essex village.
▪ For every movie they let go beyond two hours, they secretly think they have an Academy Award winner.
▪ Last year the award winners were those judged to be tops in the application of advanced manufacturing technology.
▪ If it wasn't up against such strong competition, it would have been an award winner.
▪ Or take a look at the 1996 Coretta Scott King Award winners announced recently.
competition
▪ Submissions must be made by February 2001 and competition winners will be announced in June.
cup
▪ Anglesey Aluminium knocked out former cup winners Amlwch winning their away tie by 23 runs.
▪ Cup-Winners' Cup winners 1968, 1973.
▪ On his next outing, the gelding defeated the subsequent Gold Cup winner Garrison Savannah by seven lengths.
▪ He has indicated that this may be his last year on the tour, and he finishes a five-time Davis Cup winner.
medal
▪ Once again we've supplied the sails for a long list of medal winners.
▪ Clint had it all: a top filmstar, successful grand-prix driver, gold medal winner at the Munich Olympics.
▪ The first monthly medal winner was L.C. Smith, one of only nine competitors.
prize
▪ He ended up with a prize winner.
▪ The eighty-three year old Nobel Peace prize winner is currently on a nationwide tour.
▪ The prize winners will be notified by post within 8 weeks of the closing date. 8.
▪ The first prize winners are: Neil Glaister, of Spennymoor.
▪ Competition prize winners Kathryn Winkler of Dundee, your lucky number is up.
▪ The prize was instituted in 1987 by Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka.
■ VERB
announce
▪ As he was announced the winner to a huge cheer, he looked astonished.
▪ Finally, the captain announced the winner of the brand prize-the Old Folks' Open Trophy.
▪ A panel of young judges, to be chosen through a national competition, will announce its own winners.
choose
▪ A panel of six judges will choose winners after a series of stringent tests.
▪ General Motors Corp., which owns Hughes, will choose the winner within the next two weeks, sources said.
▪ The judges meet again on Tuesday, 7 November to choose the winner of the Booker Prize 2000.
▪ Our judges found it very hard to choose the winners - the entries were all so good.
▪ Each of the company's stores here will choose a local winner in the three categories.
declare
▪ With an eye to a safe driving career, Neil Brown from Wing near Aylesbury was declared the winner.
▪ Marcos, who counted the ballots, declared himself the winner.
▪ Internet Magazine recently tested six low-spec browsers and declared Opera the winner.
▪ Despite widespread violence and corruption, Leslie Manigat was declared the winner and was inaugurated on Feb 7.
▪ The first 13 correct entries opened on March 11 will be declared the winners.
emerge
▪ By then it was too late because Chelsea had gained their confidence and emerged deserved winners.
▪ Lanier emerged as the winner after polling 53 percent of the votes cast, compared with 47 percent for Turner.
▪ Knox made a desperate bid to get in front at the last corner but Martin held his line and emerged the winner.
▪ This time the hat-trick chance was taken and Sandrock emerged worthy winners.
▪ For opponents Oakley had other ideas, they produced the goods on the night and took their chances to emerge 7-2 winners.
pick
▪ Experience to date and motivational goal data give us our greatest chance of picking a winner.
▪ A technology Strategy does not mean that a government has to pick winners and losers.
▪ As a result, everyone believes that they have a chance of picking the winner.
▪ You will certainly pick the winner, but at what cost?
▪ Softbank claims that it is better at picking winners and that it is buying into a growth industry.
▪ Technology development strategies are designed to pick technology winners.
▪ Trust you, Dwight, to pick a winner, and pick him before the rest of us have heard of him!
▪ Suddenly, Labour wobbled as it appeared that the Tories might have picked a genuine winner.
produce
▪ If the match produces a winner, Derry will meet Cork on April 7 instead.
▪ Norman also established a breeding stud of racehorses which produced many classic winners.
▪ Extra-time failed to produce a winner so a penalty shootout was needed.
▪ The Euro Cup competition links together a series of Continental races, with a points-scoring system producing an overall winner.
▪ Of the two, Bulli's lines produced more winners and are more enduring.
▪ The 1993 Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita produced four hometown winners in the five dirt races.
receive
▪ The winner receives a total of £21,000 with a guaranteed increase in sales and recognition worldwide.
▪ Medal winners will receive large cash prizes from the government and be treated like royalty.
▪ There will be 29 winners who will each receive outdoor gear.
▪ The winner will also receive £1,000 worth of Sainsbury's wine.
▪ All winners receive a year's free membership.
▪ Entry is free and there is £100 up for grabs with the overall winner receiving the Roy Tongue Cup.
▪ The winners will receive £24,850, the runners-up £15,500, and the losing semi-finalists £7,750.
▪ More than 260 women in Koenigstein, near Frankfurt, took part in a lottery with 73 winners receiving gems worth up to £2,000.
ride
▪ During his racing career he rode 1,544 winners.
▪ During the subsequent week, she had ridden three winners, only one of which was for Bill Templeman.
▪ Russell's loss was Marcus Gorman's gain, as the 28-year-old stockbroker was riding his first ever winner.
▪ Editors love riding a winner into the ground.
▪ Collectively they rode four winners, six seconds, and two thirds from a total of 34 rides.
score
▪ Yes, you've certainly scored a winner this month, folks, I hope you're over the moon about it!
▪ Sheedy equalized with four minutes left, and Mountfield scored the winner in extra time.
▪ Crumplin scored the winner with a spectacular diving header six minutes from time after good work from Clive Walker and Gary Chivers.
▪ It was fitting he should score the late winner.
▪ After Liverpool pulled level the non-stop Earle pounced on a Fashanu knock-down to score the winner.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pick a winner
▪ A technology Strategy does not mean that a government has to pick winners and losers.
▪ Experience to date and motivational goal data give us our greatest chance of picking a winner.
▪ Softbank claims that it is better at picking winners and that it is buying into a growth industry.
▪ The government hopes to pick a winner in May but the selection could be delayed.
▪ Trust you, Dwight, to pick a winner, and pick him before the rest of us have heard of him!
the outright winner/victor
▪ But the outright winner has to be the microwave.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a Grammy winner
▪ On Thursday the judges will be announcing the winner of this year's Booker prize.
▪ The winner will receive a prize of $500.
▪ The crowd roared as the winner crossed the finishing line.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both are course and distance hurdle winners - Capolla Jack in record time.
▪ For every movie they let go beyond two hours, they secretly think they have an Academy Award winner.
▪ Studying drama as a winner of a Commonwealth Fellowship, Cooke traveled throughout the country in the summer of 1933.
▪ The winners will be drawn on 14 December 1992.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Winner

Winner \Win"ner\, n. One who wins, or gains by success in competition, contest, or gaming.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
winner

mid-14c., agent noun from win (v.). Adjectival winner-take-all attested from 1901.

Wiktionary
winner

n. One who has won or often wins.

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WordNet
winner

  1. n. the contestant who wins the contest [syn: victor] [ant: loser]

  2. a gambler who wins a bet [ant: loser]

  3. a person with a record of successes; "his son would never be the achiever that his father was"; "only winners need apply"; "if you want to be a success you have to dress like a success" [syn: achiever, success, succeeder] [ant: failure]

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Gazetteer
Winner, SD -- U.S. city in South Dakota
Population (2000): 3137
Housing Units (2000): 1526
Land area (2000): 1.544848 sq. miles (4.001139 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.544848 sq. miles (4.001139 sq. km)
FIPS code: 72180
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 43.373869 N, 99.857648 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Winner, SD
Winner
Wikipedia
Winner (film)

Winner is a 2003 Indian Tamil language action comedy film written and directed by Sundar C. The film stars Prashanth and Kiran in lead roles, while Vadivelu, Vijayakumar, M. N. Nambiar and Riyaz Khan among others play other supporting roles. The film, which has music scored by Yuvan Shankar Raja and camera work handled by Prasad Murella, released on 27 September 2003 and became a commercial success at the box office.

Winner

Winner(s) or The Winner(s) may refer to:

  • Champion, the victor in a game or contest
Winner (card game)

Winner is a card game similar to the game President, the game Big Two, and other shedding games. It is the game from which Tien Len and other similar games are derived.

Winner (Renée Geyer album)

Winner is Renée Geyer's seventh solo album and her second to be recorded in the USA. Motown's Frank Wilson again manned the console; however, this time The Renée Geyer Band provided the rhythm section. They were once again supported by some of the very best US session players. Winner contains two of Geyer's best ever performances in "Bad Side of the Blues" and the jazzy "I Miss You", on which she proved she could scat with the best. However, Geyer was neither happy with the album nor the promotion that US Polydor were providing and negotiated a release from her contract. She then brought the tapes home from Australia to be remixed but she still calls this, rather unfairly, "a bit of a loser". This album and Renée Live, are the only two albums in her entire catalogue not to be released on CD.

Winner (surname)

Winner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Charley Winner (born 1924), American football coach
  • David Winner (author) (born 1956), English author and journalist
  • David Winner (soccer) (born 1971), retired American soccer goalkeeper
  • Joseph Winner (1837–1918), American composer
  • Langdon Winner, American philosopher of technology
  • Lauren Winner, American writer and educator
  • Michael Winner (1935–2013), English film director, television personality and food critic
  • Septimus Winner (1827–1902), American songwriter
Winner (Rythem song)

"Winner" is Rythem's thirteenth single. It was released on October 10, 2007 under Sony Music Entertainment Japan label. The title track was used as the theme song for NHK's Minna no Uta for the month of October to November 2007. This single reached the #52 spot in the Oricon weekly charts.

The item's stock number is AICL-1858.

Winner (Jamie Foxx song)

"Winner" is the first single from American singer/actor Jamie Foxx's fourth studio album Best Night of My Life, released for digital download on April 6, 2010 through J Records. It features American singer Justin Timberlake and rapper T.I.. Foxx told George Lopez about Timberlake's contribution: "I got him on the track—'cause he wasn't gonna get on the track—I just literally said, 'Man, my people suffered for 500 years. You owe me this.'" It was also the official theme song of the 2010 NBA Playoffs for NBA on TNT and NBA TV.

Winner (Systems in Blue song)

Winner is a Synthpop song originally performed by German music group Systems in Blue, and released as a single in 2004. The single features "Only 4 You" as B-side, performed by Systems in Blue and Judith Burmeister.

Winner (Pet Shop Boys song)

"Winner" is a 2012 single by the Pet Shop Boys and the first to be taken from the duo's eleventh studio album Elysium. On 2 July 2012, it received its UK radio premiere on The Ken Bruce Show on BBC Radio 2. The following day, it was made available for download via iTunes.

The track was BBC Radio 2's "Record of the Week" for the second week of July 2012.

The track has been added on the B-list of the BBC Radio 2's playlists for three weeks.

Winner (Kid British song)

Winner is the fifth single by British Ska and Indie band Kid British.

The track was released on 28 June 2010. The track being released to coincide with the 2010 World Cup featuring on their debut album To Get Nowhere, Follow the Crowd.

The video for the single features former West Ham United and England forward Sir Geoff Hurst and Manchester City defender Nedum Onuoha.

The song also features on the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa video game.

Winner (band)

Winner , stylized as WINNER, is a South Korean boy group formed in 2014 by YG Entertainment. The group's five members are Seungyoon, Mino, Seunghoon, Jinwoo and Taehyun.

The group was first introduced in the 2013 reality survival program WIN: Who is Next as "Team A." Team A and their adversaries Team B were both formed from trainees within YG Entertainment and competed against each other for the chance to debut as the first YG boy group in eight years, since the debut of Big Bang. At the conclusion of the program, the name "WINNER" was given to Team A after they won all three rounds of public voting.

After several delays, the group made their Korean debut at the YG Family Concert on August 15, 2014. Their broadcast debut was on Inkigayo on August 17. On September 10, the group debuted in Japan. Their debut has been considered as one of the best K-pop debuts of 2014.

To date, the group has sold over 200,000 physical albums as a group and more than 8.6 million digital records, including 4,749,219 records as a group and 3,885,050 as solo members.

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Usage examples of "winner".

All the winner gets is an autographed copy of a Dungannon first edition and a gift certificate from Pizza Hut.

The moans and mutters of losing bettors overwhelmed the shouts of winners.

Theo is a scholarship winner and a brainiac who definitely has the power to help him.

George Scithers, Shawna McCarthy, and Gardner Dozois on the roster of winners of that editorial Hugo.

Lyle Johnson rushed over to the City Auditorium during a scene in which he did not appear and presented a silver cup to the winner of the Boy Scout Hurdle Contest--a stunt which Andy had approved, though Tertius Tully, the procurer of the other personal appearances, had fretted that the Boy Scouts and their doggone hurdling were nothing but Competition for the Show.

Return of Prize Notification or publishing contract as undeliverable will result in disqualification and an alternate winner will be selected.

They come in ampule form, and when you pop them under your nose, for the next thirty minutes or so you feel like a cross between a Medal of Honor winner and Superman.

Gordon Palmer and Liversidge were conspicuous winners, Broadhead a conspicuous loser.

Finally, at half-past four, at a time when Condy was precisely where he had started, neither winner nor loser by so much as a dime, a round of Jack-pots was declared, and the game broke up.

His jockey was a grim-faced veteran of twelve Derbies who had never had a winner.

Simplifying a great deal, one could argue that postmodernist discourses appeal primarily to the winners in the processes of globalization and fundamentalist discourses to the losers.

If there were no winners, there were no losers, and Major Major enjoyed every gamboling moment right up till the day Colonel Cathcart roared up in his jeep after Major Duluth was killed and made it impossible for him ever to enjoy playing basketball there again.

As these endlessly bumped and collided, they fractured or split or recombined in endless random permutations, but in every encounter there was a winner, and some of the winners grew big enough to dominate the orbit around which they traveled.

He is named Gilyak, and was the winner of the Peking Derby for China ponies.

The winner of the competition was Herman Hollerith, whose electrically powered calculator was a monster device that not only processed numbers but displayed the progress of the process on large clocks for all to see.