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

plural

won

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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Etymology

Origin of won²

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

Magyar took over a dormant party called Tisza, and won 29.6% of the vote and seven seats in the European Parliament.

From BBC

"He won balls in the final third and didn't quite get a clear opportunity. I felt it was a positive performance from him."

From BBC

Anthropic is racing to contain the fallout after accidentally exposing the underlying instructions it uses to direct Claude Code, the popular artificial-intelligence agent app that has won the company an edge with developers and businesses.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Lakers finished March with a win over the Cleveland Cavaliers and have won 13 of their past 14 games.

From Los Angeles Times

Their team, Venetian Blinds, has won several contests, most recently an IQ test of 100 granular questions that the event organizer said took months to develop.

From The Wall Street Journal