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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

... of our wage-workers are notoriously inefficient. In the most common tasks one has to watch the average workingman in order to prevent his bungling a job. Hands are worth little without some brains; as in the work done, so in the pay won. Our labor is quite as largely uninterested—having no more heart than brains back of the hands. Work is done mechanically by most workingmen, with little pride in doing it well, and little ambition to be continually ...

— Black and White - Land, Labor, and Politics in the South • Timothy Thomas Fortune

... marked men. He's gone mad. He won't let one of you live." Kramer had their eyes now. "Take him now," he shouted, and seized my ...

— Greylorn • John Keith Laumer

... make our bit o' fire, get a pannikin of tea, and then two of us'll stop and look after the traps in case any one should come and want to borrow things and we not know where they're gone. T'others had better have a look round and drop in here and there at these places where the men meet. It won't do to be proud out here. I want to ...

— To Win or to Die - A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze • George Manville Fenn

... in the sense of discipline, enthusiasm, keenness, even intelligence. It is, I believe, a well-ascertained fact that an unusually high proportion of reformatory boys and other socially doubtful men have won rewards for exceptional deeds, and every one knows the case of the man with twenty-seven convictions against him who won the V.C. for one of the bravest acts ...

— Pebbles on the Shore • Alpha of the Plough (Alfred George Gardiner)

... were carried, and two hundred prisoners, with a large supply of ammunition, were captured. Night closed on the scene of carnage, and Lieutenant-colonel Brooks, who had defeated the Germans, kept the ground he had won within the line of the British intrenchments. In the engagement, General Frazer and Colonel Breyman were mortally wounded; and on the following morning Burgoyne, disheartened by this loss, removed his whole ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan

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