Definition of finalist in English:
finalist
noun ˈfʌɪn(ə)lɪstˈfaɪn(ə)ləst
1A competitor or team in the final or finals of a competition.
Example sentencesExamples
- The 40 finalists were divided into teams and they were given various challenges.
- Wake Forest, the other finalist in the players' recruitment, followed the same approach.
- He is a finalist for the Hart Trophy as the league's most valuable player.
- In a Canadian university, a male and a female candidate were finalists for a tenurable position in philosophy.
- The three will include both finalists and the winner of the qualifying final.
- He takes man and dog to a local show where, to his delight, they win the breed class and are finalists in Best In Show.
- More and more, this team looks capable of becoming a conference finalist.
- Nominations were made by their teachers and the finalists will be judged by the trustees of the fund.
- It was far from the preserve of the independently educated - and two finalists go to state schools.
- Mr Shepherd has been a Student of the Year finalist for the past three years,
- Thankfully things got better as the worst of the finalists were gradually sent packing.
- A Rhodes Scholarship finalist, she will pursue a Ph.D. in Near Eastern studies at Berkeley.
- She will almost certainly make England's team for Manchester 2002 and is a potential finalist.
- The other finalists, should England make it to the World Cup will be either Spain or Germany.
- The six finalists are design graduates and are creating gardens based on design concepts for city gardens.
- First questions came from former Olympic champion and defeated finalist - US swimmer Janet Evans.
- A picture framer who set up his own business in Broadway has been named a finalist in a national competition for the third year running.
- Another look at the past winners and finalists of the Champions League shows that the system does indeed seem to work.
- Each of the finalists in the dance competition won a pair of cinema tickets and a goody bag.
- None of which is meant to diminish the achievements of the two finalists.
2A student taking finals.
Example sentencesExamples
- Law students were issued a warning last week after a finalist's computer work was deleted in the Bodleian Law Library.
Synonyms
undergraduate, postgraduate, scholar, tutee
Definition of finalist in US English:
finalist
nounˈfīn(ə)ləstˈfaɪn(ə)ləst
A competitor or team in the final or finals of a competition.
Example sentencesExamples
- She will almost certainly make England's team for Manchester 2002 and is a potential finalist.
- It was far from the preserve of the independently educated - and two finalists go to state schools.
- The 40 finalists were divided into teams and they were given various challenges.
- Each of the finalists in the dance competition won a pair of cinema tickets and a goody bag.
- A Rhodes Scholarship finalist, she will pursue a Ph.D. in Near Eastern studies at Berkeley.
- A picture framer who set up his own business in Broadway has been named a finalist in a national competition for the third year running.
- Thankfully things got better as the worst of the finalists were gradually sent packing.
- The three will include both finalists and the winner of the qualifying final.
- In a Canadian university, a male and a female candidate were finalists for a tenurable position in philosophy.
- Another look at the past winners and finalists of the Champions League shows that the system does indeed seem to work.
- The other finalists, should England make it to the World Cup will be either Spain or Germany.
- The six finalists are design graduates and are creating gardens based on design concepts for city gardens.
- Wake Forest, the other finalist in the players' recruitment, followed the same approach.
- First questions came from former Olympic champion and defeated finalist - US swimmer Janet Evans.
- More and more, this team looks capable of becoming a conference finalist.
- Nominations were made by their teachers and the finalists will be judged by the trustees of the fund.
- Mr Shepherd has been a Student of the Year finalist for the past three years,
- He is a finalist for the Hart Trophy as the league's most valuable player.
- He takes man and dog to a local show where, to his delight, they win the breed class and are finalists in Best In Show.
- None of which is meant to diminish the achievements of the two finalists.