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- DictionaryWin/win/
verb
- 1. be successful or victorious in (a contest or conflict): "the Mets have won four games in a row"
- 2. acquire or secure as a result of a contest, conflict, bet, or other endeavor: "there are hundreds of prizes to be won"
noun
- 1. a successful result in a contest, conflict, bet, or other endeavor; a victory: "a win against Norway"
Win definition: to finish first in a race, contest, or the like. See examples of WIN used in a sentence.
Definition of win verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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Pronunciation
1. IPA(key): /wɪn/ 2. Rhymes: -ɪn 3. Homophones: wynn, Nguyen, winne, when (in accents with the whine-wine merger and the pin-pen merger).
Etymology 1
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 ġewinnan (“conquer, obtain, gain; endure, bear, suffer; be ill”)), from Proto-Germanic *winnaną (“to swink, labour, win, gain, fight”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive, wish, desire, love”). Cognate with Low German winnen, Dutch winnen, German gewinnen, Danish vinde, Norwegian Bokmål vinne, Norwegia...
Etymology 2
From Middle English winn, winne, from Old English winn (“toil, labor, trouble, hardship; profit, gain; conflict, strife, war”), from Proto-Germanic *winną (“labour, struggle, fight”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive, desire, wish, love”). Cognate with German Gewinn (“profit, gain”), Dutch gewin (“profit, gain”).
Etymology
Borrowed from English win.
Noun
win 1. win 2. victory 3. prize
Verb
win 1. to win
Pronunciation
1. Rhymes: -ɪn 2. IPA(key): /ʋɪn/
Verb
win 1. inflection of winnen: 1.1. first-person singular present indicative 1.2. imperative
Noun
win 1. woman
Further reading
1. Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988) 2. Stephen Adolphe Wurm, New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study(1976)
Etymology 2
From Old English winn, from Proto-West Germanic *winnan, from Proto-Germanic *winną, *winnaną; akin to winnen. Reinforced by earlier iwin, from Old English ġewinn.
Pronunciation
1. IPA(key): /ˈwin/
Noun
win 1. hair 2. an animal's feathers or scales
Pronunciation
1. IPA(key): /vɪn/
Etymology 1
From Old Frisian wind, from Proto-Germanic *windaz.
Etymology 2
From Old Frisian wīn, from Proto-West Germanic *wīn, from Latin vīnum.
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *wīn, from Latin vīnum.
Noun
wīn m 1. wine
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *wīn from Latin vīnum.
Pronunciation
1. IPA(key): /wiːn/
Noun
wīn n 1. wine 1.1. c. 810, charter of Christ Church Canterbury, Cotton Augustus II, 79, f1r: 1.1.1. ...selle mon... mittan fulne huniges oðða tuegen uuines... 1.1.1.1. (please add an English translationof this quotation)
Pronunciation
1. IPA(key): /vin/ 2. Rhymes: -in 3. Syllabification: win
Noun
win f 1. genitive plural of wina
Definition of win noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. win. noun. /wɪn/ a victory in a game, contest, etc. two wins and three defeats. a comfortable/an easy win. a home/an away win. The team are in hot form with nine straight wins (= nine wins, one after another, without any losses). consecutive/successive wins.
Definition of win. English dictionary and integrated thesaurus for learners, writers, teachers, and students with advanced, intermediate, and beginner levels.
