Word Meanings - WINNER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who wins, or gains by success in competition, contest, or gaming.

Related words: (words related to WINNER)

• GAINSOME
  1. Gainful. 2. Prepossessing; well-favored. Massinger.
• GAMING
  The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers; gambling.
• GAMOGENETIC
  Relating to gamogenesis. -- Gam`o*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv.
• SUCCESS
  1. Act of succeeding; succession. Then all the sons of these five brethren reigned By due success. Spenser. 2. That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort.
• GAMOMORPHISM
  That stage of growth or development in an organism, in which the reproductive elements are generated and matured in preparation for propagating the species.
• GAMIC
  Pertaining to, or resulting from, sexual connection; formed by the union of the male and female elements.
• GAINSAY
  To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid. I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. Luke xxi. 15. The just gods gainsay That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother,
• GAMBET
  Any bird of the genuis Totanus. See Tattler.
• GAMBA
  A viola da gamba.
• CONTESTABLE
  Capable of being contested; debatable.
• GAMMADION
  A cross formed of four capital gammas, formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments, etc. See Fylfot.
• SUCCESSLESS
  Having no success. Successless all her soft caresses prove. Pope. -- Suc*cess"less*ly, adv. -- Suc*cess"less*ness, n.
• GAMMER
  An old wife; an old woman; -- correlative of gaffer, an old man.
• GAINSAYER
  One who gainsays, contradicts, or denies. "To convince the gainsayers." Tit. i. 9.
• GAMELESS
  Destitute of game.
• GAMA GRASS
  A species of grass tall, stout, and exceedingly productive; cultivated in the West Indies, Mexico, and the Southern States of North America as a forage grass; -- called also sesame grass.
• GAMBESON
  See GAMBISON
• GAMBISON
  A defensive garment formerly in use for the body, made of cloth stuffed and quilted. (more info) of German origin: cf. MHG. wambeis, G. wams doublet, fr. OHG. wamba,
• CONTEST
  1. Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation. Leave all noisy contests, all immodest clamors and brawling language. I. Watts. 2. Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife
• CONTESTATION
  1. The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute. "Loverlike contestation." Milton. After years spent in domestic, unsociable contestations, she found means to withdraw. Clarendon. 2. Proof by witness; attestation; testimony. A solemn
• MISOGAMIST
  A hater of marriage.
• MEGAMPERE
  A million ampères.
• DEUTEROGAMIST
  One who marries the second time.
• AUTOGAMOUS
  Characterized by autogamy; self-fertilized.
• AMALGAM
  A native compound of mercury and silver. (more info) 1. An alloy of mercury with another metal or metals; as, an amalgam of tin, bismuth, etc. Note: Medalists apply the term to soft alloys generally. 2. A mixture or compound of different things.
• VANTAGE GAME
  The first game after the set is deuce. See Set, n., 9.
• PHAENOGAMIAN; PHAENOGAMIC
  See PHæNOGAMOUS
• DIGAMMA
  A letter ( Note: This form identifies it with the Latin F, though in sound it is said to have been nearer V. It was pronounced, probably, much like the English W. (more info) Gram.)
• HETEROGAMY
  The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy.
• PHAENOGAMIA
  The class of flowering plants including all which have true flowers with distinct floral organs; phanerogamia.
• HOMOGAMY
  The condition of being homogamous.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• AMALGAMA
  See BURKE
• POGAMOGGAN
  An aboriginal weapon consisting of a stone or piece of antler fastened to the end of a slender wooden handle, used by American Indians from the Great Plains to the Mackenzie River.