MEDALIST Synonyms: 18 Similar and Opposite Words

medalist

noun

variants or medallist

Definition of medalist

as in prizewinner

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Recent Examples of medalist Her mother, Rizza, was a Southeast Asian Games bronze medalist in swimming before becoming the CFO of a major telecommunications firm, while her uncle Noli is a former high-ranking official in Philippine basketball. — Max Gao, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2026 The Olympic gold medalist’s look had a sleeveless, figure-fitting silhouette with a wrap detail at the drop waist. — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 31 Aug. 2026 The backstory Olympic gold medalist Tommy Moe, fly fishing pro Mike Rheam, and heli-ski expert Mike Overcast founded Tortrillo as a place for travelers to live out their wildest, biggest Alaska adventures. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Aug. 2026 Before his death, Grant was working toward a goal of becoming the second Olympic swimmer from his small town high school following in the footsteps of two-time gold medalist Garrett Weber-Gale. — Susan Young, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for medalist

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Noun

This Cannes Directors’ Fortnight prizewinner sets out its pitch-black-comic stall early with a prologue in which, after a brief contretemps, local man Raoul Brun (Jean-Louis Coulloc’h) blows his supercilious neighbor’s head off with a shotgun and then disappears.

— Jessica Kiang, Variety, 16 June 2026
North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame Learn about North Dakota's history of rodeos and ranching; see prizewinners' saddles; and visit a gallery of bronze sculptures depicting longhorns, horses, and cowboys.

— Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 1 June 2026

Definition of prizewinner

Noun

One year later, the Canadian is out before the second week in Flushing Meadows, after losing to his fellow former semifinalist here.

— Lukas Weese, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Navarro was leading going into the remainder of the match, but Boisson — a 2025 French Open semifinalist — capitalized on the delay to win the second set.

— Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of semifinalist

Noun

But no superstar name has scrambled around the world for the show.

— Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2026
Photograph by Anthony Pham The boy-band-heartthrob-to-solo-superstar pipeline is a familiar one in the pop pantheon, but few have worn it as well as the British singer Harry Styles.

— Rhoda Feng, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of superstar

Noun

But don’t snooze on dessert—executive pastry chef Rabii Saber was recently named a James Beard Awards finalist.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Sep. 2026
Emma Navarro, who had not made the fourth round at a major since Wimbledon 2025, knocked off this year’s Wimbledon finalist, Karolína Muchová, 6-3, 7-5.

— Ava Wallace, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of finalist

Noun

Most of the early mining there consisted of placer mining — extracting minerals from sand and gravel in river beds — and mining declined during the Civil War.

— John Meyer, Denver Post, 26 July 2026
Its breakout star is Parker Schnabel, a thirty-one-year-old who runs a placer mine in the Yukon that brought in fifty-one million dollars last year.

— Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 4 May 2026

Definition of placer

Noun

One involved American Learner Tien, with the 20-year-old bidding to become the youngest American male quarterfinalist at Flushing Meadows since Andy Roddick in 2002.

— Ava Wallace, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Central, a Class 4A quarterfinalist last season, graduated Jonaz Walton, a former AJC Super 11 who rushed for 5,965 yards in his career, now at Notre Dame.

— Todd Holcomb, AJC.com, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of quarterfinalist

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