Definitions for runner-up

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Spelling: [ruhn-er-uhp]

IPA: /ˈrʌn ərˈʌp/

Runner-Up is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in runner-up (-ennprruu).

Definitions for runner-up

noun

1. the competitor, player, or team finishing in second place, as in a race, contest, or tournament.
2. runners-up, the competitors who do not win a contest but who place ahead of the majority of the contestants and share in prizes or honors, as those who place second, third, and fourth, or in the top ten.

Origin of runner-up

First recorded in 1835-45

Examples for runner-up

Also on stage was runner-up Crystal Lee, a Chinese-American and Miss California 2013.

You see they do say I'm runner-up among the amateurs on the green links.

You could, I suppose, broaden the definition of “runner-up” to include Romney.

runner-up: Pauline Etienne, Eden I could not take my eyes off this immensely talented Belgian actress.

Bergolio was considered as the runner-up to Ratzinger in 2005.

A purse of $50 was offered for the winner and $30 for the runner-up.

I won one once—runner-up in the fifth flight over at San Gabriel.

“I put on a dress and walked down, and ended up getting first runner-up,” she recalls.

However, as a traitor, I'm not even a runner-up with your father.

Last week Mrs. Clement Barstow was runner-up in the women's amateur golf tournament played on the Okoochee eighteen-hole course.