yen
Noun
- a yearning for something or to do something
- the basic unit of money in Japan; equal to 100 sen
- The unit of Japanese currency (symbol: ¥) since 1871, divided into 100 sen.
- A coin or note worth one yen.
- A strong desire, urge, or yearning.
- Opium.
Verb
Verb Forms: yenned, yenning, yens
- To yearn; to have a strong desire or craving for something.
- have a desire for something or someone who is not present
- To have a strong desire for.
Examples
- He had a YEN to play a Q-without-U word, but the tiles just weren’t aligning.
- humankind's yen for knowledge
Origin / Etymology
From Medhurst and Hepburn’s romanizations, under the influence of earlier Portuguese romanizations, of Japanese 圓(えん) (en, “round; a round object”) as ye or yen, now 円(えん) (en), from Chinese 銀圓 /银圆 (yínyuán, “round silver object(s), especially a piece of eight”): 銀 /银 (yín, “silver”) + 圓 /圆 (yuán, “circular, round; yuan, yen, dollar”). Cognate with Chinese 元 (yuán, “monetary unit, especially RMB”) and Korean 원 (won, “North or South Korean won”). Doublet of won and yuan.
Synonyms
ache, hankering, languish, pine, yearn, Chinese tobacco, God's medicine, JPY, aunti/aunti Emma, big O, chandu, craving, desire, dopium, dream gun, dream stick, fi-do-nie, gee, gondola, goric, guma, hop/hops, jones, longing, meconium, midnight oil, mud, ope, pen yan, pin gon, pox, skee, toxy, urge, when-shee, yearning, yen, ze, zero
Scrabble Score: 6
yen: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordyen: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
yen: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary