英和和英

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈwɪnə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈwɪnɚ/
• Homophone: winter (some North American dialects)
• 韻: -ɪnə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: win‧ner

名詞

winner (plural winners)

1. One who has won or often wins.
   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1994, 0:41 from the start, in Juicy‎ (Hip Hop), spoken by The Notorious B.I.G.:

     Remember Rappin' Duke? Duh-ha, duh-ha
     You never thought that hip-hop would take it this far
     Now I'm in the limelight 'cause I rhyme tight
     Time to get paid, blow up like the World Trade
     Born sinner, the opposite of a winner
     Remember when I used to eat sardines for dinner

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.

反意語

• loser

派生語