win
To reach some destination or object, despite difficulty or toil (now usually intransitive, with preposition or locative adverb).
Verb 4 meanings
To reach some destination or object, despite difficulty or toil (now usually intransitive, with preposition or locative adverb).
To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.).
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”
To obtain (someone) by wooing; to make an ally or friend of (frequently with over).
Noun 2 meanings
An individual victory.
“Our first win of the season put us in high spirits.”
Pleasure; joy; delight.
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”).
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WIN at a glance
WIN has 3 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (W 4 + I 1 + N 1) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #384 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with win
All rhymes- TWIN7
- SEWIN8
- RAWIN8
- REWIN8
- OUTWIN9
- LAWIN8
- BEDAWIN13
- POWIN10
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