WON Synonyms: 102 Similar and Opposite Words

won

verb

Definition of won

past tense of win

as in prevailed

to achieve victory (as in a contest) the kind of person who always has to win—even if the game is just for fun

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as in earned

to receive as return for effort win a gold medal in swimming

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as in achieved

to obtain (as a goal) through effort won a substantial victory in the struggle for civil rights for all

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Recent Examples of won The Big Ten has won the last three national titles via three different teams (Indiana, Michigan and Ohio State). — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026 The United States won 94-61, with Caitlin Clark recording a double-double in her senior international debut with 14 points and 11 assists in 25 minutes off the bench. — Ryan Canfield Outkick, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2026 The team remained stable for more than a decade and won six American League West titles. — Andy McCullough, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026 Antioch’s defensive line — senior Willie Hamilton and Harrison Victor and junior Camryn Mowery — won the trenches the rest of the way. — Mike McGraw, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2026 The project won the top prize at Guangxi’s provincial science and technology awards on August 24. — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026 Earlier this month, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley narrowly won the Democratic nomination after one of the most chaotic and unusual primaries in the state’s history. — Dan Kaufman, New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2026 Democrats haven’t won a statewide seat since 2018, when now-chairperson of the Florida Democratic Party, Nikki Fried, became a one-term agriculture commissioner. — Liv Caputo, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2026 The film won the ACID Award at Cannes and went on to collect more than 30 international prizes. — Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 28 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for won

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Alonso watched as his Chelsea team prevailed 4-3 over Brighton in a wild English league game earlier.

— ABC News, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2026
In the rest of the state, Graham prevailed — including in the Charleston area, where former governor and congressman Mark Sanford endorsed Norman after his own Senate campaign faltered.

— David Weigel, semafor.com, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of prevailed

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No one is questioning that Davion Mitchell has earned and is capable of holding a spot in the Heat’s rotation.

— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2026
After attending Bucharest’s Academy of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography, she was accepted into NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, then later earned a master’s degree from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

— Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of earned

Verb

Alpha has achieved several successful launches, but setbacks and failures have kept Firefly from establishing a routine launch cadence.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 6 Sep. 2026
OpenAI is open about the fact that the numbers are achieved under the best possible conditions and may be slightly different from the models available in the production ChatGPT product that most users can access.

— Emily Forlini, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of achieved

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After the Philippines attained independence, in 1946, with the country’s economy constricted from more than three centuries of colonization, a diaspora spread around the world.

— Albert Samaha, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026
The Tennessee singer-songwriter, actor, and philanthropist hailed from a vanishing class, a 20th-century monocultural phenomenon who attained a household-name status that never lost its luster.

— Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of attained

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The collective added that its initial open letter – early signatories of which included Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters, Nobel Prize-winning writer Annie Ernaux and directors Matteo Garrone and Isabel Coixet – had since garnered 1,000 signatures.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2026
Academy graduate Ollie Scarles garnered some interest towards the end of the window.

— Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026