winnerwin‧ner /ˈwɪnə $ -ər/ ●●● S3 W2 noun 
the winner of the Ladies’ Championship Five lucky winners will each receive a signed copy of the album. As a jockey he rode 10 winners.prize/award/medal etc winner a Nobel prize winner2[countable] informal someone or something that is or is likely to be very popular and successful: The book has proved to be a winner with young children. The company seems to be onto a winner (=doing something that is likely to be successful).3[singular] a goal or point that makes someone win a game such as football or tennis: Moran scored the winner with only two minutes left.4[countable usually plural] the person who gets most of the advantages from a situation OPP loser: In a capitalist society there will always be winners and losers. The real winners this summer have been the sun cream manufacturers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- 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.
- 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.
Longman Language Activatorthe person or team that wins
· The winner will receive a prize of $500.· The crowd roared as the winner crossed the finishing line.winner of · On Thursday the judges will be announcing the winner of this year's Booker Prize.
a person who has won a competition, especially in sport: · Mohammed Ali, the former world heavyweight boxing champion, will appear on the 'Tonight' show next week.defending champion (=the person who won last time and is trying to win again): · As defending champion, he is expected to reach the final.reigning champion (=the present champion who won the competition last time): · Bjorn Borg was the reigning Wimbledon champion for five years.
: winning team/player/horse etc (=the team, player etc that wins) · The winning team will go through to the grand final in London.· A group of reporters followed the winning jockey and horse into the winner's enclosure.
written the winner in a war, election, or important sporting event: · After the war, the victors returned in triumph.· The victors are waving to the crowd as they do their lap of honour.
having won an important fight, competition, election, etc: · He shook hands with his victorious opponent.· Three young men from the victorious team came forward to collect their trophy.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Five lucky winners will each receive a signed copy of the album. a Nobel prize winner The book has proved to be a winner with young children. The company seems to be onto a winner (=doing something that is likely to be successful). Moran scored the winner with only two minutes left. In a capitalist society there will always be winners and losers.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES I think she’s onto a real winner with this song. a past president of the golf club
Five lucky winners will each receive a signed copy of the album. a Nobel prize winner The book has proved to be a winner with young children. The company seems to be onto a winner (=doing something that is likely to be successful). Moran scored the winner with only two minutes left. In a capitalist society there will always be winners and losers.· The award winners will be announced in December.
· Jane was the clear winner of the competition.
· The lucky winner of the competition will be announced next week.
· Johnson was a silver medal winner at the Olympic Games.
I think she’s onto a real winner with this song. a past president of the golf club· Congratulations to all the prize winners!
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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· 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.
· Submissions must be made by February 2001 and competition winners will be announced in June.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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
- But the outright winner has to be the microwave.
- 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!
WORD FAMILYnounwinwinnerwinningsadjectivewinningverbwin
1[countable] a person or animal that has won something OPP loserwinner of the winner of the Ladies’ Championship Five lucky winners will each receive a signed copy of the album. As a jockey he rode 10 winners.prize/award/medal etc winner a Nobel prize winner2[countable] informal someone or something that is or is likely to be very popular and successful: The book has proved to be a winner with young children. The company seems to be onto a winner (=doing something that is likely to be successful).3[singular] a goal or point that makes someone win a game such as football or tennis: Moran scored the winner with only two minutes left.4[countable usually plural] the person who gets most of the advantages from a situation OPP loser: In a capitalist society there will always be winners and losers. The real winners this summer have been the sun cream manufacturers.