Win Definition

wĭn
winning, wins, won
verb
winning, wins, won
To get by effort, labor, struggle, etc.
Webster's New World
To finish in first place in a race, contest, etc.
Webster's New World
To achieve success in an effort or venture.
Struggled to overcome the handicap and finally won.
American Heritage
To be successful or victorious in (a contest, game, dispute, etc.)
Webster's New World
To gain a victory; be victorious; triumph.
Webster's New World
noun
wins
An act of winning; victory, as in a contest.
Webster's New World
First position at the finish of a race.
Webster's New World
An amount won or earned.
American Heritage

(UK dialectal, Scotland) Pleasure; joy; delight.

Wiktionary
Wiktionary
Antonyms:
idiom
win the day
  • To be successful.
American Heritage
win out
  • to win all of the remaining games or contests on one's current schedule
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Win

Noun

Singular:
win
Plural:
wins

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Win

Origin of Win

  • From Middle English winnen, from Old English winnan (“to labour, swink, toil, trouble oneself; resist, oppose, contradict; fight, strive, struggle, rage; endure") (compare Old English Ä¡ewinnan (“conquer, obtain, gain; endure, bear, suffer; be ill")), from Proto-Germanic *winnanÄ… (“to swink, labour, win, gain, fight"), from Proto-Indo-European *wen- (“to strive, wish, desire, love"). Cognate with Low German winnen, Dutch winnen, German gewinnen, Swedish vinna.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Middle English winne, wunne, from Old English wynn (“joy, rapture, pleasure, delight, gladness"), from Proto-Germanic *wunjō (“joy, delight, pleasure, lust"), from Proto-Indo-European *wen- (“to strive, wish, desire, love"). Cognate with German Wonne (“bliss, joy, delight"), Danish ynde (“grace"), Icelandic yndi (“delight").

    From Wiktionary

  • From Middle English winn, winne, from Old English winn (“toil, labor, trouble, hardship; profit, gain; conflict, strife, war"), from Proto-Germanic *winnÄ… (“labour, struggle, fight"), from Proto-Indo-European *wen- (“to strive, desire, wish, love"). Cognate with German Gewinn (“profit, gain").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English winnen from Old English winnan to fight, strive wen-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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