Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The winner of a prize.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The winner of a prize.

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  • noun The (male) winner of a prize

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Examples

  • Can it be possible that I, James North, the college – hero, the poet, the prizeman, the Heaven knows what else, have been content to live on at this dreary spot — an animal, eating and drinking, for tomorrow I die?

    For the term of his natural life 2004

  • Our names were all to go into a hat, and the unfortunate prizeman was to be heckled and cross-examined by the chairman for ten minutes, like any ordinary Maynooth student at the Christmas and Easter examinations.

    My New Curate P.A. Sheehan

  • It was difficult for the young Oxford prizeman not to follow Lord Chancellor

    Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore

  • Anthony C. Deane was born in 1870 and was the Seatonian prizeman in

    Modern British Poetry Louis Untermeyer 1931

  • Born in New Brunswick (of Loyalist descent), Sir George was educated in the University of New Brunswick (gold medalist), Edinburgh University (prizeman in literature) and Heidelberg; professor of Classics in University of New Brunswick; entered politics, 1882.

    The Ties of Empire 1925

  • Anthony C. Deane was born in 1870 and was the Seatonian prizeman in 1905 at Clare College, Cambridge.

    Biographical Sketches Louis Untermeyer 1920

  • Yet I was a senior prizeman once, and the pride of a college eight;

    Songs of a Sourdough 1916

  • Yet I was a senior prizeman once, and the pride of a college eight;

    The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses 1916

  • What prizeman in hypothetics at any of our Colleges of Unreason can compare with some of these machines in their own line?

    Erewhon; or, Over the range 1910

  • At first privately educated, in 1813 he graduated from St. John's College, Cambridge, as senior wrangler and first Smith's prizeman.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909

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