won

¹ American  

[wuhn] / wʌn /

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of win.

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won ² American  

[wuhn, woon, wohn] / wʌn, wʊn, woʊn /

verb (used without object)

Archaic.

wonned, wonning

1. to dwell; abide; stay.

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won ³ American  

[won] / wɒn /

noun

won plural

1. a paper money and monetary unit of North and South Korea, equal to 100 chon.

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won ¹ British  

/ wɒn /

noun

1. the standard monetary unit of North Korea, divided into 100 chon

2. the standard monetary unit of South Korea, divided into 100 chon

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won ² British  

/ wʌn /

verb

1. the past tense of win 1

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won ³ British  

/ wʊn, wəʊn, wʌn /

verb

1. archaic (intr) to live or dwell

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• won
  plural

Etymology

Origin of won²

before 900; Middle English wonen, Old English wunian; cognate with German wohnen; see wont

Origin of won³

First recorded in 1915–20; from Korean wǒn, Korean pronunciation of the Japanese character pronounced as en, yen “coin, round coin, yen,” from Middle Chinese wian “round, circular,” equivalent to Chinese yuán yuan

Example Sentences

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won wonned wonning

Former freestyler Karen Pickering, who won her last Commonwealth title aged 30 in 2002, said she thinks Ramsay-Peaty "means is he is doing too much rather than too fast".

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

This season marks 40 years since Crespi’s greatest team, led by running back Russell White, won the Division 1 championship over St. John Bosco in 1986.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

The movement has won millions of followers on social media since it was launched in May by 30-year-old public relations graduate Abhijeet Dipke.

From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026

That has won over charter fishing boat captains, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

Wolf raced him and easily won, but then pulled back to let Torak catch up.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

There by him now stood the beakers and bowls, 172 There lay the dishes and dearly-wrought swords, Rusty, through-eaten they, as in earth's bosom A thousand of winters there they had wonned.

From The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats by Anonymous

Offering there hath he made Saint James, candles him paid, Gold on the shrine hath laid; Now Gobertz Is for Toulouse, where that maid Tibors wonned unafraid Of Love and his accolade That breaketh hearts.

From Helen Redeemed and Other Poems by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

But small pleasaunce took Little John   In all he heard and saw; Till he reached the cave of a hermit old   Who wonned within the shaw.

From The Bon Gaultier Ballads by Doyle, Richard

The castle would have been right fair and rich had any folk wonned therein, but none there were save one old priest and his clerk that lived within by their own toil.

From The High History of the Holy Graal by Evans, Sebastian

But while in early morn she wonned alone And Paris slept, shrill rose her singing tone, And brave the light on kindled cheeks and eyes: Brave as her hope is, brave the flag she flies.

From Helen Redeemed and Other Poems by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

Temple devout! where God chose his wonning,* *abode From which, these misbeliev'd deprived be, To you my soule penitent I bring; Receive me, for I can no farther flee.

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing