winner meaning
EN
[ˈwɪnə] [ˈwɪnɚ] [-ɪnə(ɹ)] WWinner
- Winner(s) or The Winner(s) may refer to:
- Champion, the victor in a game or contest
EN Winner 
- NounPLwinners
- One who has won or often wins.
- 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.
- (sports) A point or goal that wins a competition.
- It was a fitting scoreline on the club's landmark anniversary, and appropriate that Van Persie should get the winner.
- One who has won or often wins.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- After the hosts had been pegged back to 1-1 and seen Victor Obinna sent off for a crazy kick out at Sebastian Larsson, Cole bagged the winner with only 10 minutes left
- He could keep winning through attrition, with a relentless barrage of topspinning ground strokes and a tireless defense of his own side, where would-be winners go to die.
- Our lucky free draw winner will be treated to dinner, bed and breakfast, but the holiday must be taken before December, 1991 (subject to availability and excluding bank holidays).
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- It was a fitting scoreline on the club's landmark anniversary, and appropriate that Van Persie should get the winner.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of winner in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "winner" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.