WINNING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does winning mean? 

• WINNING (noun)
  The noun WINNING has 1 sense:

1. succeeding with great difficulty

  Familiarity information: WINNING used as a noun is very rare.

• WINNING (adjective)
  The adjective WINNING has 2 senses:

1. having won

2. very attractive; capturing interest

  Familiarity information: WINNING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WINNING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Succeeding with great difficulty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

winning is not everything

Hypernyms ("winning" is a kind of...):

success (an attainment that is successful)

Derivation:

win (win something through one's efforts)

• WINNING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having won

Synonyms:

victorious; winning

Context example:

the winning team

Similar:

successful (having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Very attractive; capturing interest

Synonyms:

fetching; taking; winning

Context example:

a winning personality

Similar:

attractive (pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm)

 Context examples 

Ay, and for your own sake, he added, for if a man's esteem and gratitude are ever worth the winning, you have won mine to-day.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But there's no danger not winning your mother to our marriage.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She laughed because she was disappointed; and though she liked him for his attentions, and thought them all, whether in friendship, admiration, or playfulness, extremely judicious, they were not winning back her heart.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He will hold a card back for years in order to play it at the moment when the stake is best worth winning.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was charmed with her childish, winning way.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Yes, the Bristol yellowman has been the winning colour of late.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The prince, however, had already observed their entrance, and, springing to his feet, he had advanced with a winning smile and the light of welcome in his eyes.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

See if you can give up something meaningful to your client, but not so much to you for a more winning situation.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Long discussion they had, during the time of winning him, as to whose dog he was.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

There have been cases before now where trainers have made sure of great sums of money by laying against their own horses, through agents, and then preventing them from winning by fraud.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)