Word.ws English Dictionary

mun

/mʌn/

mun verb: must.

Verb

mun

  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.1894, M E Francis, In a North Country Village

Noun (1)

mun (plural 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.1847, J O Halliwell, Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial words

Noun (2)

mun

  1. (South Africa, UK, dialectal) man

Pronoun

mun

  1. (Devon, UK, dialectal, obsolete, Somerset) them
    • tha wut spudlee out the Yemors, and screedle over mun1746, Exmoor Courtship, published 1879, page 50

Noun (3)

mun (plural muns)

  1. (Internet, roleplaying games) 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[…]1997 October 29, Jade [username], “Re: Male dragon in need of mate ^_^”, in alt.fan.dragons (Usenet)
    • 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)
    Synonyms:
    roleplayer, RPer

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Mun

Mun

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

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Mun

Mun (plural Muns)

  1. (countable) A surname from Korean.

Noun (4) capitalized: MUN

MUN (plural MUNs)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of model United Nations.

Proper noun (3) capitalized: MUN

MUN

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Memorial University of Newfoundland.

mun meaning in Telugu

mun in Telugu

మున్

Synonyms of mun

Forms of mun

Verb
alternative formmaun
Noun
pluralmuns
pluralMUNs
Proper noun
pluralMuns

Origin of mun

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

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

Clipping of mundane.

Phrases with mun

Words that rhyme with mun

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about mun

What does mun mean?
Mun means must.
What is mun in Telugu?
Mun in Telugu is మున్. See Mun meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is mun?
Mun can be a verb, a noun, a pronoun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce mun?
Mun is pronounced /mʌn/.

Words near mun in the dictionary

  1. Mumsnutter
  2. Mumsnutters
  3. mumsy
  4. mumu
  5. mumus
  6. mun
  7. mun ebony
  8. Mun.
  9. Muna
  10. munafiq
  11. munafiqs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mun (page history and authors); Mun (page history and authors); MUN (page history and authors); mun (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mun.wav.

Cite this entry: “mun.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mun. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.