win
Forms
- present (v1)
- win
- past (v2)
- won
- past participle (v3)
- won
- present participle
- winning
- 3rd person singular
- wins
- Plural
- wins
Definitions
1.To reach some destination or object, despite difficulty or toil (now usually intransitive, with preposition or locative adverb).
- I well may gang out, love, but I'll never win home.
- Parson Brooke was transferred in a couple of years to the Southwark mint, on dissolution of which he won back to the Tower, there to experiment with machinery in Mary's reign.
- No sooner did I get my freedom than my footsteps began to be dogged by the spies of the Iron Heel. It was necessary that they should be thrown off the track, and that I should win to California.
2.To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.).
- Tom is definitely going to win.
- Tom is going to win.
- I knew you wouldn't win.
3.To gain (a prize) by succeeding in competition or contest.
- Tom is definitely going to win.
- Tom is going to win.
- I knew you wouldn't win.
4.To obtain (someone) by wooing; to make an ally or friend of (frequently with over).
- She is a woman; therefore to be won.
- Mr. Weston seems an excellent creature, quite a first-rate favourite with me already, I assure you. And she appears so truly good, there is something so motherly and kind-hearted about her, that it wins upon one directly.
1.An individual victory.
- Our first win of the season put us in high spirits.
- Giovani dos Santos smashed home a third five minutes later to wrap up the win.
2.A feat carried out successfully; a victorious achievement.(slang)
3.Pleasure; joy; delight.
4.Alternative form of wynn.
Frequency
Overall
Very common· #347
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Common
- General reading & writing
- Very common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English winnen, from Old English winnan (“to labour, swink, toil,”) (compare Old English ġewinnan (“conquer, obtain, gain; endure, bear, suffer; be ill”)), from Proto-West Germanic *winnan, from Proto-Germanic *winnaną (“to swink, labour, win, gain, fight”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive, wish, desire, love”).