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WINNING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Succeeding with great difficulty
Example:
winning is not everything
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("winning" is a kind of...):
success (an attainment that is successful)
Derivation:
win (win something through one's efforts)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very attractive; capturing interest
Example:
a winning personality
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
attractive (pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having won
Example:
the winning team
Synonyms:
victorious; winning
Classified under:
Similar:
successful (having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb win
Context examples:
Were you to argue, object, and annoy me for a year, I could not forego the delicious pleasure of which I have caught a glimpse—that of repaying, in part, a mighty obligation, and winning to myself lifelong friends.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Meg made many moral rules, and tried to keep them, but what mother was ever proof against the winning wiles, the ingenious evasions, or the tranquil audacity of the miniature men and women who so early show themselves accomplished Artful Dodgers?
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
She wept when she quitted our house; she was much altered since the death of my aunt; grief had given softness and a winning mildness to her manners, which had before been remarkable for vivacity.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Wilfully had it disobeyed and won my eyes to speech, and now it was winning my tongue—ay, and my lips, for they were mad this moment to kiss the two small hands which had toiled so faithfully and hard.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
It's better worth being late for a chance of winning you than being in time for any other girl in the world.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
They arrived by course of miracle, by winning a thousand-to-one wager against them.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Jupiter will keep you optimistic about your future outlook, and Saturn will keep you grounded and realistic—a winning combination.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
A moody smile that had overspread his features cleared off as he said this merrily, and he was his own frank, winning self again.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He shook his bridle as he spoke, and thundered away, his knights lying low upon their horses and galloping as hard as whip and spur would drive them, in the hope of winning the king's prize.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was to see Sarah that he came to my house first, but soon it was to see us, for he was a man with winning ways, and he made friends wherever he went.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
