won

Pronunciation

• enPR: wŭn, IPA^(key): /wʌn/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʌn
• Homophone: one (on most accents)

Verb

won

1. simple past and past participle of win

Alternative forms

• wone

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /wɒn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: (UK) -ɒn
• Homophones: one, wan

Verb

won (third-person singular simple present wons, present participle wonning, simple past and past participle wonned)

1. (archaic or obsolete, regional) To live, remain.
   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, xxxiii:

     I long'd to leave this wand'ring pilgrimage, / And in my native soil again to won.

2. (archaic or obsolete, regional) To be accustomed to do something.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: wŏn, IPA^(key): /wɒn/
• (US) enPR: wän, IPA^(key): /wɑn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɒn
• Homophones: one, wan

Noun

won (plural won)

1. The currency of Korea, worth 100 jun in North Korea and 100 jeon in South Korea.

   Synonyms: ₩, ￦

Descendants

• → Persian: وون (von)

Noun

won (plural wones)

1. Alternative form of wone (“dwelling”)

Noun

won (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of wone (“course”)

Adjective

won

1. Alternative form of wone

Adverb

won

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of whon

Noun

won (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of wane (“deprivation”)

Adjective

won

1. Alternative form of wane

Adjective

won

1. Alternative form of wan

Noun

won (plural wones)

1. Alternative form of wone (“custom”)

Noun

won (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of wane (“woeful state”)

Verb

won (third-person singular simple present woneth, present participle wonende, wonynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle woned)

1. Alternative form of wonden

Numeral

won

1. (Late Middle English) Alternative form of on

Adverb

won

1. (southern West Midlands) Alternative form of whanne

Conjunction

won

1. (southern West Midlands) Alternative form of whanne

Verb

won

1. Alternative form of wonen (“to dwell”)

Verb

won

1. Alternative form of wounden: past participle of wynden

Verb

won

1. Alternative form of wanne: singular simple past of winnen
2. Alternative form of wonnen: past participle of winnen

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɔn/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔn
• Syllabification: won

Noun

won m animal

1. won (currency of South Korea)
2. won (currency of North Korea)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔn/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔn
• Syllabification: won

Interjection

won

1. (colloquial, dismissal) out!, get out!

   Synonyms: precz, sio, wynocha

Conjugation