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winner

name · noun · 8 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ˈwɪnə/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: /ˈwɪnɚ/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • homophone: winter (some North American dialects)
  • rhymes with -ɪnə(ɹ)
  • CMU ARPABET: W IH1 N ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Michael Winner directed the 1974 action film "Death Wish".

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

A ghost town in Minnesota.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

name

Meaning 3

A city, the county seat of Tripp County, South Dakota.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

One who has won or often wins.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A point or goal that wins a competition.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

a person with a record of successes

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • 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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: achiever, success, succeeder

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul

Narrower terms: first lady, great, highflier, highflyer, natural, sleeper

7

noun

Meaning 7

a gambler who wins a bet

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: loser

Broader terms: gambler

Narrower terms: prize winner, lottery winner

8

noun

Meaning 8

the contestant who wins the contest

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: victor

Antonyms: loser

Broader terms: contestant

Narrower terms: contestee, medalist, medallist, upsetter, walloper

History

Etymology

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”).

Across languages

Translations

195 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: wenner — one who has won or often wins
  • Albanian: fitues — one who has won or often wins
  • Amharic: አሸናፊ (ʾäšänafi) — one who has won or often wins
  • Amharic: አሸናፊት (ʾäšänafit) — one who has won or often wins
  • Arabic: فَائِز (fāʔiz) — one who has won or often wins
  • Arabic: فَائِزَة (fāʔiza) — one who has won or often wins
  • Arabic: غَالِب (ḡālib) — one who has won or often wins
  • Arabic: غَالِبَة (ḡāliba) — one who has won or often wins
  • Arabic: ظَافِر (ẓāfir) — one who has won or often wins
  • Arabic: ظَافِرَة (ẓāfira) — one who has won or often wins
  • Arabic: رَابِح (rābiḥ) — one who has won or often wins
  • Arabic: رَابِحَة (rābiḥa) — one who has won or often wins
  • Armenian: հաղթող (haġtʻoġ) — one who has won or often wins
  • Azerbaijani: qalib — one who has won or often wins
  • Bashkir: еңеүсе (yeñewse) — one who has won or often wins
  • Basque: garaile — one who has won or often wins
  • Belarusian: перамо́жца (pjeramóžca) — one who has won or often wins
  • Belarusian: перамо́жніца (pjeramóžnica) — one who has won or often wins
  • Bengali: বিজয়ী (bijoẏi) — one who has won or often wins
  • Bengali: গালিব (galibo) — one who has won or often wins
  • Central Bikol: gana — one who has won or often wins
  • Bulgarian: победи́тел (pobedítel) — one who has won or often wins
  • Bulgarian: победи́телка (pobedítelka) — one who has won or often wins
  • Burmese: အနိုင်ရသူ (a.nuing-ra.su) — one who has won or often wins
  • Burmese: နိုင်သူ (nuingsu) — one who has won or often wins
  • Catalan: guanyador — one who has won or often wins
  • Catalan: guanyadora — one who has won or often wins
  • Chinese Cantonese: 勝利者 /胜利者 (sing3 lei6 ze2) — one who has won or often wins
  • Chinese Cantonese: 贏家 /赢家 (jeng4 gaa1) — one who has won or often wins
  • Chinese Mandarin: 勝利者 /胜利者 (shènglìzhě) — one who has won or often wins
  • Chinese Mandarin: 優勝者 /优胜者 (yōushèngzhě) — one who has won or often wins
  • Chinese Mandarin: 贏家 /赢家 (yíngjiā) — one who has won or often wins
  • Czech: vítěz — one who has won or often wins
  • Czech: vítězka — one who has won or often wins
  • Danish: vinder — one who has won or often wins
  • Danish: segerherre — one who has won or often wins
  • Dutch: winnaar — one who has won or often wins
  • Dutch: winnares — one who has won or often wins
  • Esperanto: venkanto — one who has won or often wins
  • Esperanto: gajninto — one who has won or often wins
  • Estonian: võitja — one who has won or often wins
  • Finnish: voittaja — one who has won or often wins
  • French: gagnant — one who has won or often wins
  • French: gagnante — one who has won or often wins
  • French: vainqueur — one who has won or often wins
  • French: vainqueuse — one who has won or often wins
  • Friulian: vincidôr — one who has won or often wins
  • Galician: ganador — one who has won or often wins
  • Galician: ganadora — one who has won or often wins
  • Galician: triunfador — one who has won or often wins
  • Galician: triunfadora — one who has won or often wins
  • Georgian: გამარჯვებული (gamarǯvebuli) — one who has won or often wins
  • Georgian: მძლეველი (mʒleveli) — one who has won or often wins
  • German: Gewinner — one who has won or often wins
  • German: Gewinnerin — one who has won or often wins
  • German: Sieger — one who has won or often wins
  • German: Siegerin — one who has won or often wins
  • Greek: νικητής (nikitís) — one who has won or often wins
  • Greek: νικήτρια (nikítria) — one who has won or often wins
  • Ancient Greek: ἀριστεύς (aristeús) — one who has won or often wins
  • Ancient Greek: νικητής (nikētḗs) — one who has won or often wins
  • Hebrew: מְנַצֵּחַ (m'natséakh) — one who has won or often wins
  • Hebrew: מנצחת (m'natsákhat) — one who has won or often wins
  • Hindi: विजयी (vijyī) — one who has won or often wins
  • Hindi: विजेता (vijetā) — one who has won or often wins
  • Hindi: ग़ालिब (ġālib) — one who has won or often wins
  • Hungarian: győztes — one who has won or often wins
  • Hungarian: nyertes — one who has won or often wins
  • Icelandic: sigurvegari — one who has won or often wins
  • Indonesian: pemenang — one who has won or often wins
  • Irish: buaiteoir — one who has won or often wins
  • Italian: vincitore — one who has won or often wins
  • Italian: vincitrice — one who has won or often wins
  • Japanese: 勝者 (shōsha) — one who has won or often wins
  • Japanese: 勝利者 (shōrisha) — one who has won or often wins
  • Japanese: ウィナー (winā) — one who has won or often wins
  • Japanese: 優勝者 (yūshōsha) — one who has won or often wins
  • Javanese: pamenang — one who has won or often wins
  • Kalmyk: дииләч (diiläç) — one who has won or often wins
  • Kazakh: жеңімпаз (jeñımpaz) — one who has won or often wins
  • Khmer: អ្នកឈ្នះ (nĕək chnĕəh) — one who has won or often wins
  • Korean: 승리자 (seungnija) — one who has won or often wins
  • Korean: 수상자 (susangja) — one who has won or often wins
  • Korean: 우승자 (useungja) — one who has won or often wins
  • Central Kurdish: سەرکەوتو (serkewtu) — one who has won or often wins
  • Northern Kurdish: xalib — one who has won or often wins
  • Northern Kurdish: mizafer — one who has won or often wins
  • Kyrgyz: жеңүүчү (jeŋüücü) — one who has won or often wins
  • Lao: ຜູ້ຊະນະ (phū sa na) — one who has won or often wins
  • Latin: victor — one who has won or often wins
  • Latin: victrīx — one who has won or often wins
  • Latvian: uzvarētājs — one who has won or often wins
  • Latvian: uzvarētāja — one who has won or often wins
  • Lithuanian: nugalėtojas — one who has won or often wins
  • Lithuanian: nugalėtoja — one who has won or often wins
  • Lithuanian: laimėtojas — one who has won or often wins
  • Lithuanian: laimėtoja — one who has won or often wins
  • Luxembourgish: Gewënner — one who has won or often wins
  • Macedonian: победник (pobednik) — one who has won or often wins
  • Macedonian: победничка (pobednička) — one who has won or often wins
  • Malay: pemenang — one who has won or often wins
  • Maltese: rebbieħ — one who has won or often wins
  • Maltese: rebbieħa — one who has won or often wins
  • Māori: toa — one who has won or often wins
  • Māori: whakaihuwaka — one who has won or often wins
  • Māori: kaiwini — one who has won or often wins
  • Middle English: wynnere — one who has won or often wins
  • Mongolian: ялагч (jalagč) — one who has won or often wins
  • Mongolian: дийлэгч (diilegč) — one who has won or often wins
  • Mongolian: ᠢᠯᠠᠭᠴᠢ (ilaɣči) — one who has won or often wins
  • Mongolian: ᠳᠡᠶᠢᠯᠦᠭᠴᠢ (deyilügči) — one who has won or often wins
  • Navajo: akʼehdidlíní — one who has won or often wins
  • Norman: gângnant — one who has won or often wins
  • Norwegian Bokmål: vinner — one who has won or often wins
  • Norwegian Bokmål: seierherre — one who has won or often wins
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: vinnar — one who has won or often wins
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: sigerherre — one who has won or often wins
  • Old English: sigefæst — one who has won or often wins
  • Pannonian Rusyn: добитнїк (dobitnjik) — one who has won or often wins
  • Pannonian Rusyn: добитнїца (dobitnjica) — one who has won or often wins
  • Pannonian Rusyn: побиднїк (pobidnjik) — one who has won or often wins
  • Pannonian Rusyn: побиднїца (pobidnjica) — one who has won or often wins
  • Pashto: غالب (ǧāleb) — one who has won or often wins
  • Pashto: فاتح (fāteh) — one who has won or often wins
  • Dari: بَرَنْدَه (baranda) — one who has won or often wins
  • Dari: فَاتِح (fātih) — one who has won or often wins
  • Dari: غَالِب (ġālib) — one who has won or often wins
  • Iranian Persian: بَرَنْدِه (barande) — one who has won or often wins
  • Iranian Persian: فاتِح (fâteh) — one who has won or often wins
  • Iranian Persian: غالِب (ġâleb) — one who has won or often wins
  • Polish: zwycięzca — one who has won or often wins
  • Polish: zwyciężczyni — one who has won or often wins
  • Portuguese: ganhador — one who has won or often wins
  • Portuguese: ganhadora — one who has won or often wins
  • Portuguese: vencedor — one who has won or often wins
  • Portuguese: vencedora — one who has won or often wins
  • Romanian: câștigător — one who has won or often wins
  • Romanian: câștigătoare — one who has won or often wins
  • Russian: победи́тель (pobedítelʹ) — one who has won or often wins
  • Russian: победи́тельница (pobedítelʹnica) — one who has won or often wins
  • Sanskrit: दानु (dā́nu) — one who has won or often wins
  • Serbo-Croatian: по̀бедник — one who has won or often wins
  • Serbo-Croatian: по̀бједник — one who has won or often wins
  • Serbo-Croatian: по̀бедница — one who has won or often wins
  • Serbo-Croatian: по̀бједница — one who has won or often wins
  • Serbo-Croatian: pòbednik — one who has won or often wins
  • Serbo-Croatian: pòbjednīk — one who has won or often wins
  • Serbo-Croatian: pòbednica — one who has won or often wins
  • Serbo-Croatian: pòbjednica — one who has won or often wins
  • Sinhalese: ජයග්රාහකයා (jayagrāhakayā) — one who has won or often wins
  • Slovak: víťaz — one who has won or often wins
  • Slovak: víťazka — one who has won or often wins
  • Slovene: zmagovalec — one who has won or often wins
  • Slovene: zmagovalka — one who has won or often wins
  • Southern Altai: јеҥӱчи (ǰeŋüči) — one who has won or often wins
  • Spanish: ganador — one who has won or often wins
  • Spanish: ganadora — one who has won or often wins
  • Spanish: vencedor — one who has won or often wins
  • Spanish: vencedora — one who has won or often wins
  • Swahili: mshindi — one who has won or often wins
  • Swedish: vinnare — one who has won or often wins
  • Swedish: segrare — one who has won or often wins
  • Tagalog: panalo — one who has won or often wins
  • Tajik: ғолиб (ġolib) — one who has won or often wins
  • Tajik: музаффар (muzaffar) — one who has won or often wins
  • Tajik: баранда (baranda) — one who has won or often wins
  • Tajik: фотеҳ (foteh) — one who has won or often wins
  • Tatar: җиңүче (ciñüçe) — one who has won or often wins
  • Thai: ผู้ชนะ (pûu-chá-ná) — one who has won or often wins
  • Turkish: galip — one who has won or often wins
  • Turkish: kazanan — one who has won or often wins
  • Ottoman Turkish: غالب (galib) — one who has won or often wins
  • Turkmen: ýeňiji — one who has won or often wins
  • Ukrainian: перемо́жець (peremóžecʹ) — one who has won or often wins
  • Ukrainian: перемо́жниця (peremóžnycja) — one who has won or often wins
  • Urdu: فاتِح (fātih) — one who has won or often wins
  • Urdu: فائِض (fāiz) — one who has won or often wins
  • Urdu: غالِب (ġālib) — one who has won or often wins
  • Uyghur: غالىپ (ghalip) — one who has won or often wins
  • Uyghur: يەڭگۈچى (yenggüchi) — one who has won or often wins
  • Uzbek: gʻolib — one who has won or often wins
  • Uzbek: muzaffar — one who has won or often wins
  • Uzbek: yenguvchi — one who has won or often wins
  • Vietnamese: người chiến thắng — one who has won or often wins
  • Volapük: vikodan — one who has won or often wins
  • Volapük: hivikodan — one who has won or often wins
  • Volapük: jivikodan — one who has won or often wins
  • Welsh: enillydd — one who has won or often wins
  • Yiddish: געווינער (geviner) — one who has won or often wins
  • Yiddish: זיגער (ziger) — one who has won or often wins
  • Danish: afgørende mål — point, goal (etc.) which wins a contest
  • Finnish: voittomaali — point, goal (etc.) which wins a contest
  • French: but de la victoire — point, goal (etc.) which wins a contest
  • German: Siegtor — point, goal (etc.) which wins a contest
  • Swedish: segermål — point, goal (etc.) which wins a contest
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