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yen

/jɛn/noun, verb1 syllable

Yen means: have a desire for something or someone who is not present.

Synonyms for yen20

noun, as in a yearning for something or to do something

hankering

verb, as in have a desire for something or someone who is not present

ache, yearn, pine, languish

also used for yen

JPY, craving, desire, jones, longing, urge, yearning, aunti/aunti Emma, big O, chandu, Chinese tobacco, dopium, dream gun, dream stick, fi-do-nie

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What does yen mean?3

verb

1

have a desire for something or someone who is not present“She ached for a cigarette”

noun

1

a yearning for something or to do something

2

the basic unit of money in Japan; equal to 100 sen

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with yen?22

two syllables

againamencayenne

three syllables

madeleine
Show 40 near rhymes
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Yen in a sentence

  • Suppose you had ten million yen, what would you do?CM
  • Supposing you had one million yen, what would you do with it?unknown
  • If you won a million yen, what would you do?CM
  • The price was only three thousand yen, or about thirty dollars.CM
  • He set as his goal, the deposit of three million yen.unknown
  • Every month, he saved ten thousand yen out of his income for his daughter.CS
  • If you had a million yen, what would you do with it?Chrikaru
  • The sum was written in euro, not in yen.Eldad

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of yen

as a noun

plural
yens

as a verb

third-person singular
yens
present participle
yenning
past participle
yenned
past tense
yenned