Win Definition

wĭn

winning, wins, won

verb

winning, wins, won

To get by effort, labor, struggle, etc.

Webster's New World

To finish in first place in a race, contest, etc.

Webster's New World

To achieve success in an effort or venture.

Struggled to overcome the handicap and finally won.

American Heritage

To be successful or victorious in (a contest, game, dispute, etc.)

Webster's New World

To gain a victory; be victorious; triumph.

Webster's New World

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noun

wins

An act of winning; victory, as in a contest.

Webster's New World

First position at the finish of a race.

Webster's New World

An amount won or earned.

American Heritage

(UK dialectal, Scotland) Pleasure; joy; delight.

Wiktionary

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idiom

win the day

American Heritage

win out

Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Win

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win

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From Middle English winnen, from Old English winnan (“to labour, swink, toil, trouble oneself; resist, oppose, contradict; fight, strive, struggle, rage; endure") (compare Old English Ä¡ewinnan (“conquer, obtain, gain; endure, bear, suffer; be ill")), from Proto-Germanic *winnanÄ… (“to swink, labour, win, gain, fight"), from Proto-Indo-European *wen- (“to strive, wish, desire, love"). Cognate with Low German winnen, Dutch winnen, German gewinnen, Swedish vinna.

From Wiktionary
From Middle English winne, wunne, from Old English wynn (“joy, rapture, pleasure, delight, gladness"), from Proto-Germanic *wunjō (“joy, delight, pleasure, lust"), from Proto-Indo-European *wen- (“to strive, wish, desire, love"). Cognate with German Wonne (“bliss, joy, delight"), Danish ynde (“grace"), Icelandic yndi (“delight").

From Wiktionary
From Middle English winn, winne, from Old English winn (“toil, labor, trouble, hardship; profit, gain; conflict, strife, war"), from Proto-Germanic *winnÄ… (“labour, struggle, fight"), from Proto-Indo-European *wen- (“to strive, desire, wish, love"). Cognate with German Gewinn (“profit, gain").

From Wiktionary
Middle English winnen from Old English winnan to fight, strive wen-¹ in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition