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won
English
Etymology 1
- Past participle of win, from Old English winnan.
Pronunciation
- enPR: w?n, IPA(key): /w?n/
- Rhymes: -?n
- Homophone: one (some dialects only)
Verb
won
- simple past tense and past participle of win
Derived terms
- unwon
Etymology 2
From Old English wunian. Cognate with Dutch wonen, German wohnen.
Alternative forms
- wone
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /w?n/
- Homophones: one, wan
Verb
won (third-person singular simple present wons, present participle wonning, simple past and past participle wonned)
- (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.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, xxxiii:
- (archaic or obsolete, regional) To be accustomed to do something.
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Korean ? (?, won), from Sinitic ??? (yuán, “circle” > “round coin”) referring to the piece of eight. Doublet of yuan and yen.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: w?n, IPA(key): /w?n/
- (US) enPR: wän, IPA(key): /w?n/
- Rhymes: -?n
- Homophones: one, wan
Noun
won (plural won)
- The currency of Korea, worth 100 jun in North Korea and 100 jeon in South Korea.
- Synonyms: ?, ?
Translations
Derived terms
- blue won
- red won
See also
- North Korean won on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- South Korean won on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Korean won on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- ? on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- ? (jeon) (?)
- ? (won)
Anagrams
- NOW, NWO, now, own
Chuukese
Preposition
won
- on
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?n
Verb
won
- singular past indicative of winnen
French
Etymology
From Korean ? (won) (?).
Noun
won m (plural wons)
- won (unit of currency)
Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from Korean ? (?, won).
Noun
won
- The currency of Korea, worth 100 jun in North Korea and 100 jeon in South Korea.
Japanese
Romanization
won
- R?maji transcription of ???
Lower Sorbian
Pronoun
won m sg
- Superseded spelling of wón.
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
won (plural wones)
- Alternative form of wone (“dwelling”)
Etymology 2
Noun
won (uncountable)
- Alternative form of wone (“course”)
Etymology 3
Adjective
won
- Alternative form of wone
Etymology 4
Adverb
won
- (Early Middle English) Alternative form of whon
Etymology 5
Noun
won (uncountable)
- Alternative form of wane (“deprivation”)
Etymology 6
Adjective
won
- Alternative form of wane
Etymology 7
Adjective
won
- Alternative form of wan
Etymology 8
Noun
won (plural wones)
- Alternative form of wone (“custom”)
Etymology 9
Noun
won (uncountable)
- Alternative form of wane (“woeful state”)
Etymology 10
Verb
won (third-person singular simple present woneth, present participle wonynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle woned)
- Alternative form of wonden
Etymology 11
Numeral
won
- (Late Middle English) Alternative form of on
Etymology 12
Adverb
won
- (southern West Midlands) Alternative form of whanne
Conjunction
won
- (southern West Midlands) Alternative form of whanne
Etymology 13
Verb
won
- Alternative form of wonen (“to dwell”)
Etymology 14
Verb
won
- Alternative form of wounden: past participle of winden
Etymology 15
Verb
won
- Alternative form of wanne: singular simple past of winnen
- Alternative form of wonnen: past participle of winnen
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
won m (definite singular wonen, indefinite plural wonar, definite plural wonane)
- (numismatics) won (unit of currency)
References
- “won” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /v?n/
Etymology 1
From Korean ?, from Chinese ?.
Noun
won m inan
- won (currency of Korea)
Declension
Etymology 2
From Russian ??? (von).
Interjection
won
- (colloquial, dismissal) out!, get out!
- Synonyms: precz, wynocha, sio
Further reading
- won in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- won in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish
Noun
won m (plural wones)
- won (unit of currency)
Wolof
Verb
- to show
References
Omar Ka (2018) Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center, ?ISBN, page 19
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would
English
Alternative forms
- wou'd (obsolete)
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- (stressed)
- (UK, US, General Australian) IPA(key): /w?d/
- Rhymes: -?d
- (unstressed)
- (UK, US, General Australian) IPA(key): /w?d/, /?d/
- Homophones: wood
Verb
would
- (heading) As a past-tense form of will.
- (obsolete) Wished, desired (something). [9th-19thc.]
- (archaic) Wanted to ( + bare infinitive). [from 9thc.]
- 1852, James Murdock, trans. Johann Lorenz Mosheim, Institutes of Ecclesiastical History, II.7.iii:
- The Greeks, especially those who would be thought adepts in mystic theology, ran after fantastic allegories […].
- 1852, James Murdock, trans. Johann Lorenz Mosheim, Institutes of Ecclesiastical History, II.7.iii:
- Used to; was or were habitually accustomed to ( + bare infinitive); indicating an action in the past that happened repeatedly or commonly. [from 9thc.]
- 2009, "Soundtrack of my life", The Guardian, 15 March:
- When we were kids we would sit by the radio with a tape recorder on a Sunday, listening out for the chart songs we wanted to have.
- 2009, "Soundtrack of my life", The Guardian, 15 March:
- Used with bare infinitive to form the "anterior future", indicating a futurity relative to a past time. [from 9thc.]
- 1867, Anthony Trollope, Last Chronicle of Barset, Ch.28:
- That her Lily should have been won and not worn, had been, and would be, a trouble to her for ever.
- Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
- 1867, Anthony Trollope, Last Chronicle of Barset, Ch.28:
- (archaic) Used with ellipsis of the infinitive verb, or postponement to a relative clause, in various senses. [from 9thc.]
- 1724, Daniel Defoe, Roxana, Penguin p.107:
- He sat as one astonish'd, a good-while, looking at me, without speaking a Word, till I came quite up to him, kneel'd on one Knee to him, and almost whether he would or no, kiss'd his Hand […].
- 1846, "A New Sentimental Journey", Blackwoods Magazine, vol.LX, no.372:
- If I could fly, I would away to those realms of light and warmth – far, far away in the southern clime […].
- 1724, Daniel Defoe, Roxana, Penguin p.107:
- Was determined to; loosely, could naturally have been expected to (given the tendencies of someone's character etc.). [from 18thc.]
- 1835, Charles Dickens, Sketches by Boz, V:
- Then he took to breeding silk-worms, which he would bring in two or three times a day, in little paper boxes, to show the old lady […].
- 2009, "Is the era of free news over?", The Observer, 10 May:
- The free access model, the media magnate said last week, was "malfunctioning". Well he would, wouldn't he?
- 1835, Charles Dickens, Sketches by Boz, V:
- (heading) As a modal verb, the subjunctive of will.
- Used to give a conditional or potential "softening" to the present; might, might wish. [from 9thc.]
- 2008, Mark Cocker, "Country Diary", The Guardian, 3 November:
- It's a piece of old folklore for which I would love to find hard proof.
- 2008, Mark Cocker, "Country Diary", The Guardian, 3 November:
- Used as the auxiliary of the simple conditional modality (with a bare infinitive); indicating an action or state that is conditional on another. [from 9thc.]
- 2010, The Guardian, 26 February:
- Warnock admitted it would be the ideal scenario if he received a Carling Cup winners' medal as well as an England call-up […].
- 2010, The Guardian, 26 February:
- (chiefly archaic) Might wish ( + verb in past subjunctive); often used in the first person (with or without that) in the sense of "if only". [from 13thc.]
- 1859, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress,
- I presently wished, would that I had been in their clothes! would that I had been born Peter! would that I had been born John!
- 1868, Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Ch.23:
- I would she had retained her original haughtiness of disposition, or that I had a larger share of Front-de-Bœuf's thrice-tempered hardness of heart!
- 1912, Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, translated by F. C. Conybeare (Loeb Classical Library), 8.16:
- But as the youth increased their annoyance by declaring that the goddess was quite right, because the Emperor was Archon Eponym of the city of Athens, he said: "Would that he also presided the Panathenaic festival."
- 1859, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress,
- Used to impart a sense of hesitancy or uncertainty to the present; might be inclined to. Now sometimes colloquially with ironic effect. [from 15thc.]
- 2009, Nick Snow, The Rocket's Trail, p.112:
- “Those trials are being run by the American army so surely you must have access to the documents?” “Well, yeah, you’d think.”
- 2010, Terry Pratchett, "My case for a euthanasia tribunal", The Guardian, 2 February:
- Departing on schedule with the help of a friendly doctor was quite usual. Does that still apply? It would seem so.
- 2009, Nick Snow, The Rocket's Trail, p.112:
- Used interrogatively to express a polite request; are (you) willing to …? [from 15thc.]
- (chiefly archaic, transitive or control verb) Might desire; wish (something). [from 15thc.]
- 1608, William Shakespeare, King Lear, I.4:
- What dost thou professe? What would’st thou with vs?
- 1608, William Shakespeare, King Lear, I.4:
- Used to give a conditional or potential "softening" to the present; might, might wish. [from 9thc.]
Usage notes
- As an auxiliary verb, would is followed by the bare infinitive (without to):
- John said he would have fish for dinner.
- Would is frequently contracted to 'd, especially after a pronoun (as in I'd, you'd, and so on).
- The term would-be retains the senses of both desire and potentiality (those of wannabe and might-be, respectively).
- Indicating a wish, would takes a clause in the past subjunctive (irrealis) mood; this clause may or may not be introduced with that. Most commonly in modern usage, it is followed by the adverb rather, as in I would rather that he go now. A call to a deity or other higher power is sometimes interposed after would and before the subjunctive clause, as in Would to God that […] ; see the citations page for examples.
- When used, mainly archaically, in the sense of "if only", the first-person subject pronoun is often omitted.
Synonyms
- (indicating an action in the past that happened repeatedly or commonly): used to
- (used to express a polite request): be so good as to, kindly, please
Translations
Note: many languages express some meanings of would using a mood or tense rather than by a particular word.
Related terms
- will - present tense of would
- wouldn't - negative of would
- wouldst - archaic second person singular form of would
- would like
- would've
Noun
would (plural woulds)
- Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.
See also
- could
- should
- Appendix:English modal verbs
- Appendix:English tag questions
- Modal verbs on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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