winner

win +‎ -er

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈwɪnə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈwɪnɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɪnə(ɹ)
• Homophone: winter (some North American dialects)

winner (plural winners)

1. One who has won or often wins.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.

2. (sports) A point or goal that wins a competition.
   • 2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1-0 Everton”, in BBC Sport:

     It was a fitting scoreline on the club's landmark anniversary, and appropriate that Van Persie should get the winner.

• loser

• breadwinner
• prizewinner, prize winner
• winner-take-all