The meaning of won is past tense and past participle of win. After world war ii ended in 1945, korea was divided, resulting in two separate currencies, both called won, for the south and the north. Both the southern won and the northern won replaced the yen at.
/ wʌn / add to word list past simple and past participle of win (definition of won from the cambridge academic content dictionary © cambridge university press) See examples of won used in a sentence. Definition of won in oxford advanced american dictionary.
We must have won the battle of ideas, so there's just no point in fighting on anymore. 1 day agodemocrat taylor rehmet has won a special election for the texas state senate and flipped a reliably republican district that president donald trump won by 17 points in 2024. They won the shore through a violent storm.
He won his post after years. Though one and won sound identical, their meanings differ significantly. One functions as a numeral and a pronoun, pointing to singularity and generality, while won is a verb conjugation indicating past.