mun

M3U1N1
/mʌn/

verb

Must.

Less commonScrabble 5

Meanings

mun1

verb

alternative maun

  1. Northern EnglishauxiliarydefectivedialectalmodalMust.

    Ye mun ha' done wi' all that foolery — ye're gettin' a man now, an' ye mun give over that nonsense.

    1894, M E Francis, In a North Country Village

mun2

nounmun (plural muns)

plural muns

  1. dialectalobsoleteThe 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.

    1847, J O Halliwell, Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial words

mun3

noun
  1. South AfricaUKdialectalman
pronoun
  1. DevonUKdialectalobsoleteSomersetthem

    tha wut spudlee out the Yemors, and screedle over mun

    1746, Exmoor Courtship, published 1879, page 50

mun4

nounmun (plural muns)

plural muns

  1. Internetroleplaying gamesThe 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[…]

    1997 October 29, Jade [username], “Re: Male dragon in need of mate ^_^”, in alt.fan.dragons (Usenet)
    2 more examples

    Wait a sec.... You mean.. this is a GAME?? And here I thought that nine tae five job my mun goes to everyday^([sic]) was a game and Norrath was my home..

    1999 November 4, Milelarau [username], “Re: Roleplaying”, in alt.games.everquest (Usenet)

    Any suggestions on how to successfully turn this into a good SL, which will bring the characters back into the range of normalcy, without leaving the muns feeling deprived of everything their characters earned?

    2001 December 31, JamesStein, “Successfully Powering Down a Campaign”, in rec.games.frp.dnd (Usenet)

    Synonyms: roleplayer, RPer

Mun5

proper noun
  1. A river in Thailand; in full, River Mun.

Mun6

proper nounMun (plural Muns)

plural Muns

  1. countableA surname from Korean.

MUN7

nounMUN (plural MUNs)

plural MUNs

  1. abbreviationeducationAbbreviation of model United Nations.
proper noun
  1. abbreviationAbbreviation of Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe person who roleplays a character in a role-playing game, especially an online play-by-post one.

Also see

Origin

mun · verb

  1. Proto-Germanic*munaną
  2. Old Norsemunu“shall, must”
  3. Middle Englishmone“shall, must”
  4. Englishmun

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

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mun · noun

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ment-
  2. Proto-Germanic*munþaz
  3. Old Norsemuðr
  4. Englishmun

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

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Mun · proper noun

Shortened form

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Mun · proper noun

  1. Chinese文
  2. Korean문
  3. EnglishMun

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

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Rhymes & wordplay

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Cite this entry
APA

mun. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mun

MLA

“mun.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mun. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mun,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mun.

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