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won

verbverbnountop 1 000 in film dialogue

  • United Kingdom//wɒn//
  • United States//wɑn//
  • //wʌn//

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

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of winsimple past and past participle of win

Etymology

* Past participle of win, from Old English winnan.

verb

  1. 1

    archaicTo live, remain.

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

  2. 2

    archaicTo be accustomed to do something.

Etymology

From Middle English wonen, from Old English wunian, from Proto-West Germanic *wunēn, from Proto-Germanic *wunāną, from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to wish, love”). Cognate with Dutch wonen, German wohnen.

noun

  1. 1

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 원(圓) (won), from Sinitic 圓 /圆 (“circle” > “round coin”) referring to the piece of eight. Doublet of yuan and yen.

Forms

past tense
wonned
past participle
wonned
present participle
wonning
third person singular
wons
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).