prizewinner

noun

prize·​win·​ner ˈprīz-ˌwi-nər How to pronounce prizewinner (audio)
: a winner of a prize

Examples of prizewinner in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Previous prizewinners include Michael Asher, Mark Bradford, Ralph Lemon, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, and Pope. News Desk, Artforum, 23 Sep. 2024 Potential candidates this year include the breakout feel good hit A Little Something Extra, lavish swashbuckler The Count Of Monte Cristo and Jacques Audiard’s Spanish-language Cannes jury prizewinner Emilia Perez. Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 5 July 2024 In honor of the night’s biggest prizewinners, Puck was serving a selection of British food: Roast beef with Yorkshire pudding and fish and chips were presented to the couple, who were both delighted by a taste of home. Nicole Sperling Sinna Nasseri, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2024 Such questions seem to be a specialty of Lafosse’s, a director whose best movie to date, the 2012 Cannes prizewinner, Our Children, made the viewer somehow feel deep empathy for a woman who killed all five of her own kids. Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Sep. 2023 See all Example Sentences for prizewinner 

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Word History

First Known Use

circa 1849, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of prizewinner was circa 1849

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“Prizewinner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prizewinner. Accessed 11 Oct. 2024.

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prizewinner

noun
prize·​win·​ner -ˌwin-ər How to pronounce prizewinner (audio)
: a winner of a prize
prizewinning
-ˌwin-iŋ
adjective

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