1 a person, a team, an animal, etc. that wins sth:
The winners of the competition will be announced next month. * There are no winners in a divorce (= everyone suffers). * the European cup winners * Johnson rode his 48th winner of the year.
2 [usuallysing.] (informal) a thing or person that is successful or likely to be successful:
I think your idea is a winner. * The design is very good. We could be onto a winner (= we may do or produce sth successful).
3 [sing.] (sport) a goal or point that causes a team or a person to win a game:
Owen scored the winner after 20 minutes
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IDIOMS see PICKv.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for winner is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is winner a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, winner is tagged as noun.
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