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wen¹
- /wɛn/
Sounds like when (wine–whine merger) · Rhymes with -ɛn
Where it comes from
From Middle English wen, wenne, from Old English wenn, wænn (“wen”), from Proto-Germanic *wanjaz. Cognate with Dutch wen (“goiter”), Low German Ween (“wen”), dialectal German Wenne (“wen”), Danish van, væne.
noun wens
- A cyst on the skin; a tumor or wart. There was a Fellow with a Wen in his Neck, larger than five Woolpacks, and another with a couple of wooden Legs, each about twenty foot high.
wen²
- /wɛn/
Sounds like when (wine–whine merger) · Rhymes with -ɛn
Where it comes from
Inherited from Old English wynn.
noun wens
- Obsolete form of wynn (“the letter ƿ”).
wen³
- /wɛn/
Sounds like when (wine–whine merger) · Rhymes with -ɛn
Where it comes from
Eye dialect spelling of when.
adverb
- Alternative spelling of when
conjunction
- Alternative spelling of when
pronoun
- Alternative spelling of when
noun
- Alternative spelling of when
Wen⁴
proper noun Wens
- A common surname from Chinese of east Asian derivation. To find out more, I spoke with CNN wellness expert Dr. Leana Wen. Wen, a mother of two young kids, is an emergency physician and adjunct associate professor at the George Washington University.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: steatocystoma, pilar cyst, sebaceous cyst, cyst, bonham, temperature, warm, wan, swing, amon, man, moon, chih, hsiang, cultural, text
Translations
Every language
noun a cyst on the skin
| 한국어 | 혹 hok |
|---|---|
| Français | loupe |
| Deutsch | Grützbeutel, Grießknoten, Talgknoten, Fettgeschwulst, Balggeschwulst |
| Italiano | natta |
| Русский | жирови́к žirovík |
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title = {wen},
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