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 …

The meaning of WON is past tense and past participle of win.

WON definition: simple past tense and past participle of win. See examples of won used in a sentence.

We must have won the battle of ideas, so there's just no point in fighting on anymore.

Won is the past tense and past participle of win. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

/ wʌn / Add to word list past simple and past participle of win (Definition of won from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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Definition of won in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

[Korean won (loan translation of Japanese en, round coin, yen, using the Korean pronunciation of the Chinese character with which the Japanese word is written; see yen), from Early Middle Chinese …

to succeed in reaching (a place, condition, etc.), esp. by great effort: They won the shore through a violent storm. to get by effort, as through labor, competition, or conquest: He won his post after years …