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mun¹

  • /mʌn/

Rhymes with -ʌn

Where it comes from

From Middle English mone (“shall, must”), from Old Norse munu (“shall, must”), from Proto-Germanic *munaną.

verb maun

  1. Northern English, auxiliary, defective, dialectal, modal Must. Ye mun ha' done wi' all that foolery — ye're gettin' a man now, an' ye mun give over that nonsense.

mun²

  • /mʌn/

Rhymes with -ʌn

Where it comes from

From Old Norse muðr, munnr, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ment-; Doublet of mouth.

noun muns

  1. dialectal, obsolete The mouth, jaw. A common cry at Coventry on Good Friday is: One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns, / Butter them and sugar them and put them in your muns.

mun³

  • /mʌn/

Rhymes with -ʌn

noun

  1. South Africa, UK, dialectal man

pronoun

  1. Devon, UK, dialectal, obsolete them tha wut spudlee out the Yemors, and screedle over mun

mun⁴

  • /mʌn/

Rhymes with -ʌn

Where it comes from

Clipping of mundane.

noun muns

  1. Internet The person who roleplays a character in a role-playing game, especially an online play-by-post one. Jade grabs a handful of brownies and nibbles on then,^([sic]) trying to keep her mun from reaching right to the screen to get some[…]

    Similar: roleplayer, RPer

Mun⁵

Where it comes from

Shortened form

proper noun

  1. A river in Thailand; in full, River Mun.
  2. A river in Norfolk, England, United Kingdom; in full, Mun River.

Mun⁶

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Korean 문 (mun), mainly from Chinese 文.

proper noun Muns

  1. countable A surname from Korean.

MUN⁷

noun MUNs

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of model United Nations

proper noun

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of Memorial University of Newfoundland

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: mon, macao, authorities, mone, macau, sectoral, sector, gate, man, service, door, channel, moon, memorial, branch, wen

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@misc{mun_2026,
  title = {mun},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mun},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}