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Won   /wən/  /wɑn/   Listen
Won

noun
1.
The basic unit of money in South Korea.  Synonym: South Korean won.
2.
The basic unit of money in North Korea.  Synonym: North Korean won.
adjective
1.
Not subject to defeat.


Win

verb
(past & past part. won, obs. wan; pres. part. winning)
1.
Be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious.  "Our home team won" , "Win the game"
2.
Win something through one's efforts.  Synonyms: acquire, gain.  "Gain an understanding of international finance"
3.
Obtain advantages, such as points, etc..  Synonyms: advance, gain, gain ground, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead.  "After defeating the Knicks, the Blazers pulled ahead of the Lakers in the battle for the number-one playoff berth in the Western Conference"
4.
Attain success or reach a desired goal.  Synonyms: bring home the bacon, come through, deliver the goods, succeed.  "We succeeded in getting tickets to the show" , "She struggled to overcome her handicap and won"



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"Won" Quotes from Famous Books



... king, their religion, the salvation of their country? Bleeding from the loss of their sons—will they think more of money and corn-stacks and vintages than of that true peace and freedom which can only be won by driving out tyranny? Nobody wants to put them back as they were before 1789. The feudal ages are gone—we have given up our rights, and there is an end of it—but we want our own kings again, and we want peace for France, and time to breathe ...
— Angelot - A Story of the First Empire • Eleanor Price
... "We won't argue it now," said Thorndyke. "I ask you to note the fact that the inscription was upside down. I also observed on the walls of the chambers some valuable Japanese colour-prints on which were recent damp-spots. I noted that the sitting-room had ...
— The Mystery of 31 New Inn • R. Austin Freeman
... The Bible won against the prudery of the new English; prudery will go very far, and I can recall the objection of an evangelical lady, in Philadelphia, who disliked the nightly saying of the "Ave Maria" by a little Papist relative. This was ...
— Confessions of a Book-Lover • Maurice Francis Egan
... Fred went to the city for a winter holiday. Fred's book was elegantly brought out, and won him much praise and a little money. Sylvie achieved her ambition, and sold two pictures at what she considered marvellous prices, but she wisely confessed it only to her husband. They were invited to clubs and soirees; and Mrs. Minor was extremely affable, though she did blame Fred for allowing ...
— Hope Mills - or Between Friend and Sweetheart • Amanda M. Douglas
... said to me when I was a girl, "You needn't read Barry Lyndon; you won't like it." Indeed it is scarcely a book to like, but one to admire and to wonder at for its consummate power and mastery.... Barry Lyndon tells his own story, so as to enlist every sympathy against himself, and yet all flows so plausibly, so glibly, that one can hardly explain ...
— Studies in Literature and History • Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall


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