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 aprize
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Examples
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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?
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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
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It was difficult for the young Oxford prizeman not to follow Lord Chancellor
Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore
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Anthony C. Deane was born in 1870 and was the Seatonian prizeman in
Modern British Poetry Louis Untermeyer 1931
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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
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Anthony C. Deane was born in 1870 and was the Seatonian prizeman in 1905 at Clare College, Cambridge.
Biographical Sketches Louis Untermeyer 1920
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Yet I was a senior prizeman once, and the pride of a college eight;
Songs of a Sourdough 1916
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Yet I was a senior prizeman once, and the pride of a college eight;
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What prizeman in hypothetics at any of our Colleges of Unreason can compare with some of these machines in their own line?
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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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