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Alex Haley |
a U.S. author celebrated for his pulitzer prize-winning work of historical fiction, Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976), a publication whose subsequent television broadcast adaptation spawned a national discussion about race and race relations (b.1921--d.1992). |
amateur |
an athlete who receives no monetary prize, salary, or other payment for competition. [1/5 definitions] |
award |
to give as a prize or honor. [2 definitions] |
blue ribbon |
the emblem awarded as first prize in a contest or competition. [1/2 definitions] |
booby prize |
an amusing prize given to ridicule one who performs worst in a contest or competition. |
booty1 |
any treasure or prize. [1/2 definitions] |
cakewalk |
a high-strutting, marchlike dance done in competition for the prize of a cake, awarded to the most intricate or unusual performance. [2/5 definitions] |
candidacy |
the condition of being considered or nominated, or striving to be so, for a particular position, office, prize, or honor. |
consolation prize |
a prize given to a loser or runner-up in a competition, as a means of consoling. |
contender |
a person who competes with other people to try to win something, such as a prize or a position. |
contest |
a sport or game that people try to win to get a prize; competition. [1/2 definitions] |
coupon |
a small, printed slip of paper that gives someone a discount, admission to a performance, or a chance to win a prize. |
cup |
a decorative vessel, often of precious metal, that is awarded as a prize to the winner of a contest or game. [1/7 definitions] |
Desmond Tutu |
South African cleric and leader in the struggle against apartheid, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 (b.1931). |
door prize |
a prize awarded to someone attending a public or social event, based on a lottery drawn from admission tickets or the like. |
Ernest Hemingway |
U.S. fiction writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 (b.1899--d.1961). |
giveaway |
a giving away, free or at very low cost, or the thing so given, usu. to promote a product or as a premium or prize. [1/2 definitions] |
jackpot |
the largest or final prize in a game or contest. |
Nelson Mandela |
South African statesman, anti-apartheid activist, and Nobel Peace Prize winner, who was held as a political prisoner for 27 years and became the first democratically elected and first black President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999 (b. 1918). |
Nobelist |
a winner of the Nobel prize. |
overprize |
combined form of prize. |
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