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 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 Other prizewinners at the Rockies will be Sphere Media receiving the Innovative Producer Award after Canadian broadcaster Bell Media recently acquired a minority stake in the Transplant drama producer. Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2023 In the picture, child-Eva (Sundance prizewinner Rosa Marchant) is grinning a lopsided, optimistic tomboy grin, unaware of the violent end of innocence lying in wait for her. Jessica Kiang, Variety, 3 Feb. 2023 Percival Everett was our prizewinner in 2022. Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2022 Dhont's Close, a prizewinner at Cannes and a quiet stunner at private screenings during the run-up to Oscar nominations, will make some viewers uncomfortable — a reaction the director expects. Ew Staff, EW.com, 3 Feb. 2023 Yoshinori Ohsumi, the most recent prizewinner, used baker’s yeast to identify genes crucial in autophagy, the process by which cells recycle their components. Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2017 One of them was a $300,000 top-prizewinner, bringing her pretax total to $400,000. Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022

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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 18 Apr. 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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