prize winners
Those who triumphed
Prize winners are those who have won prizes—recipients of awards, honors, or competitive victories.
The term applies across contexts from Nobel Prize winners to lottery prize winners to county fair prize winners.
Often hyphenated as an adjective: a prize-winning novel, prize-winning roses.
- laureatesCelebrated prize recipients
- recipientsThose who receive
- titleholdersCurrent holders of supremacy
- first placeWinning position
- runner upOne who placed second
awardees · victors · medalists · champions · acceptance speech · Hall of Fame · prestigious awards · pageant · trophy · shortlist · gold medalists · ceremony · silver medalists · honor · record holders · lifetime achievement · award ceremony · red carpet
- championschampions, gold medalists, titleholders, victors, world champions
- honoreeshonoree, honorees, awardee, awardees, laureate
- lucky peopleborn lucky
- book labelsclassics, bestsellers, must-reads, top picks, favorites
prize winnerslosers
Unsuccessful competitors
runners-up · also-rans · washouts · defeated · finalists
prize winnersunrecognized
Not identified or acknowledged
overlooked · also-rans · nobodies · rejects · unsung heroes
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