win

• IPA^(key): /wɪn/

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• Rhymes: -ɪn
• Homophones: wynn, Nguyen

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 ġewinnan (“conquer, obtain, gain; endure, bear, suffer; be ill”)), from Proto-Germanic *winnaną (“to swink, labour, win, gain, fight”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive, wish, desire, love”). Cognate with Low German winnen, Dutch winnen, German gewinnen, Norwegian Bokmål vinne, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish vinna.

win (third-person singular simple present wins, present participle winning, simple past and past participle won)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To conquer, defeat.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book IV:

     For and we doo bataille we two wyl fyghte with one knyȝt at ones / and therfore yf ye wille fyghte soo we wille be redy at what houre ye wille assigne / And yf ye wynne vs in bataille the lady shal haue her landes ageyne / ye say wel sayd sir Vwayne / therfor make yow redy so that ye be here to morne in the defence of the ladyes ryght

   • 1998, Rhapsody, Emerald Sword

     For the glory, the power to win the Black Lord, I will search for the Emerald Sword.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To reach some destination or object, despite difficulty or toil (now usually intransitive, with preposition or locative adverb).
   • "Baron of Brackley," traditional folk song

     I well may gang out, love, but I'll never win home.

   • 1922, Everard Wyrall, "The History of the Second Division 1914-1918"

     As this position was vulnerable, a trench was immediately begun from the junction of the Green Line with Lager Alley, back to the old British front line, in order to form a defensive flank for the protection of the troops of the 5th Infantry Brigade who had won through to their objective.

   • 1953, John Craig, "The Mint: A History of the London Mint from A.D. 287 to 1948"

     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.

   • Edmund Spenser (c.1552–1599)

     Even in the porch he him did win.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Sir Walter Scott

     And when the stony path began, / By which the naked peak they won, / Up flew the snowy ptarmigan.

3. (transitive) To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.).
4. (transitive) To gain (a prize) by succeeding in competition or contest.

   to win the jackpot in a lottery;  to win a bottle of wine in a raffle

5. (transitive) To obtain (someone) by wooing; to make an ally or friend of (frequently with over).
   • 1589, Sir Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

     Thy virtue won me; with virtue preserve me.

   • 1591', William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act V, Scene 3

     She is a woman; therefore to be won.

   • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume II, chapter 14:

     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.

6. (intransitive) To achieve victory.

   Who would win in a fight between an octopus and a dolphin?

7. (transitive) To obtain (something desired).

   The company hopes to win an order from the government worth over 5 million dollars.

8. (transitive) To cause a victory for someone.

   The success of the economic policies should win Mr. Smith the next elections.

   The policy success should win the elections for Mr. Smith.

9. (transitive, mining) To extract (ore, coal, etc.).

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Raymond to this entry?)

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

win (plural wins)

1. An individual victory.

   Antonym: loss

   Our first win of the season put us in high spirits.

   • 2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport‎:

     Giovani dos Santos smashed home a third five minutes later to wrap up the win.

2. (slang) A feat carried out successfully; a victorious achievement.

   Antonym: fail

3. (obsolete) Gain; profit; income.
4. (obsolete) Wealth; goods owned.

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 *wenh₁- (“to strive, wish, desire, love”). Cognate with German Wonne (“bliss, joy, delight”), archaic Dutch wonne (“joy”), Danish ynde (“grace”), Icelandic yndi (“delight”).

win (plural wins)

1. (Scotland) Pleasure; joy; delight.

• worldly win

From wind.

win

1. (transitive, Scotland) To dry by exposure to the wind.

Borrowed from English win.

win

1. win
2. victory
3. prize

win

1. to win

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• Rhymes: -ɪn
• IPA^(key): /ʋɪn/

win

1. first-person singular present indicative of winnen
2. imperative of winnen

win

1. woman

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
• Stephen Adolphe Wurm, New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976)

• IPA^(key): /vɪn/

From Old Frisian wind, from Proto-Germanic *windaz.

win m

1. (Mooring) wind

From Old Frisian wīn, from Proto-Germanic *wīną.

win m

1. (Mooring) wine

From Proto-Germanic *wīną.

wīn m

1. wine

• Middle Dutch: wijn
  • Dutch: wijn
    • Afrikaans: wyn
  • Limburgish: wien

• “wīn”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

• ƿin

From Proto-Germanic *wīną from Latin vīnum, from Proto-Indo-European *wóih₁nom.

• IPA^(key): /wiːn/

wīn n

1. wine

• æppelwīn
• wīntrēow

• Middle English: wyn, wine, wyne
  • English: wine (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: wyne

• IPA^(key): /vʲin/

win f

1. genitive plural of wina

win n

1. genitive plural of wino

From English wind.

win

1. wind
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 2:7:

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• winim

From English wind.

win

1. wind

• big win

• IPA^(key): /wiːn/

win

1. Soft mutation of gwin.