runner-up

See also: runnerup and runner up

English

Alternative forms

• runner up

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɹʌn.əˈɹʌp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɹʌn.ɚˈʌp/

Noun

runner-up (plural runners-up or (colloquial, nonstandard) runner-ups)

1. The person who finishes second, or in any position after the first.

   Remember, if the winner cannot complete the duties, the runner-up will take over.

2. Second favourite.
   • 2022 July 11, Kate Conger, Mike Isaac, “How Elon Musk Damaged Twitter and Left It Worse Off”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     For years, Twitter was a runner-up social media company. It never grew to the size and scale of a Facebook or an Instagram. It simply muddled along.

Translations

the person who finishes in any position after the first

• Arabic: وَصِيفَة f (waṣīfa) (in beauty contest)
• Armenian: երկրորդ տեղը գրաված (erkrord teġə gravac)
• Bulgarian: вицешампион m (vicešampion), подгласник m (podglasnik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 亞軍／亚军 (zh) (yàjūn), 第二名 (dì'èrmíng)

• Czech: druhý (cs) v (cs) pořadí (cs)
• Danish: toer c
• Dutch: 2de plaats
• Finnish: kakkonen (fi), toiseksi tullut, toka (fi) (colloquial), perintöprinsessa (fi) (in beauty contest)
• French: vice-champion (fr) m, vice-championne (fr) f
• Georgian: მეორე ადგილოსანი (meore adgilosani), მეორე ადგილზე გასული (meore adgilze gasuli)
• German: Vizemeister (de) m, Vizemeisterin (de) f, Zweitplatzierter (de) m, Zweitplatzierte (de) f, Zweiter (de) m, Zweite (de) f
• Greek: επιλαχών (el) (epilachón)
• Hindi: उपविजेता m or m pl or f or f pl (upvijetā)
• Hungarian: második helyezett, (any finalist) döntős (hu), helyezett (hu)
• Italian: finalista (it) f, vicecampione (it) m
• Japanese: 次点者 (じてんしゃ, jitensha), 次点 (ja) (じてん, jiten), 二番 (にばん, niban)
• Korean: 차점자 (ko) (chajeomja)
• Maori: tuarua
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: toer (no) m

  Nynorsk: toar m

• Polish: wicemistrz
• Portuguese: segundo colocado m, segundo (pt) m, vice-campeão m
• Russian: заня́вший второ́е ме́сто m (zanjávšij vtoróje mésto), заня́вшая второ́е ме́сто f (zanjávšaja vtoróje mésto), вице-ми́сс (ru) f (vice-míss) (in a beauty contest)
• Spanish: subcampeón m, subcampeona f, finalista (es) f, princesa (es) f (in beauty contest), suplente (id)
• Swedish: tvåa (sv) c
• Tagalog: napabilang, pangalawang-nabibilang, prinsesa (tl) (in beauty contest)
• Vietnamese: á quân (vi)