The winner of a prize, race, or competition is the person, animal, or thing that wins it. She will present the trophies to the award winners The winner was a horse called Last Town. loser
1 n An unexpectedly good situation, program, programmer, or person "So it turned out I could use a {lexer} generator instead of hand-coding my own pattern recognizer What a win!" 2 `real winner': Often sarcastic, but also used as high praise (see also the note under {user}) "He's a real winner --- never reports a bug till he can duplicate it and send in an example "
a person with a record of successes; "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"
If you say that something or someone is a winner, you mean that they are popular and successful, or that they are likely to be popular and successful. They think the appeal is a winner Selling was my game and I intended to be a winner. = success, hit failure
a card that is very likely to win a trick The Ace of Trump is a winner (unless it is the second one played on the trick) Generally, Aces and Trump are winners See also losers