Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A strong desire or inclination; a yearning or craving.
- intransitive verb To have a strong desire or inclination; yearn.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name given by the Indians about the Klamath Lakes of Oregon to the short-nosed sucker, Chasmistes brevirostris.
- noun The monetary unit of Japan since 1871, represented
- noun by a gold coin weighing 1.666 grams, .900 fine, and thus practically equal in value to the United States gold dollar; and
- noun by a silver coin weighing 26.956 grams (416 grains), .900 fine, and thus about equal to the silver dollar of the United States.
- A dialectal form of
yon . - noun A variant of
eyen , plural ofeye .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The unit of value and account in Japan. The
yen is equal to 100sen . From Japan's adoption of the gold standard, in 1897, to about 1913 the value of the yen was about 50 cents. In 1997 and 1998 the value of the yen varied from 80 per U. S. dollar to 120 per dollar.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
unit of Japanesecurrency , equal to 100sen . - noun A coin or note worth one yen.
- noun A strong
desire ,urge , oryearning . - verb To have a strong desire for.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb have a desire for something or someone who is not present
- noun the basic unit of money in Japan; equal to 100 sen
- noun a yearning for something or to do something
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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After having thus repeated the neck three times, and wee yen, or way yen as often, they all burst out into a kind of loud and joyous laugh, flinging up their hats and caps into the air, capering about and perhaps kissing the girls.
Chapter 47. Lityerses. § 4. The Corn-spirit slain in his Human Representatives 1922
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3RD LD: Extra budget to top 2.7 trillion yen to cope with rising yen+
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3RD LD: Extra budget to top 2.7 trillion yen to cope with rising yen+
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3RD LD: Extra budget to top 2.7 trillion yen to cope with rising yen+
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Providing support for the yen is the steady stream of Japanese companies converting foreign earnings back into their home currency.
Dollar, Euro and Yen Engage in 'Ugly Contest' Tom Lauricella 2010
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Perhaps that is what we call yen fen (predestined romance); they started dating each other soon afterward, and tied the knot after six months.
My Sinchew - 2009
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This week, that trend has slowed a bit, with investors moving to hedge against near-term yen, euro and dollar swings.
Currency Investors: What, Me Worry? Neil Shah 2011
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"We think the dollar-yen is going to stay at around the current 80 yen level and we don't expect to see the yen marching steadily higher," Mr. Tanaka said at a news conference.
Japan Tech Firms Scramble to Blunt Yen's Impact Daisuke Wakabayashi 2010
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The strong yen is proving to be tough to beat for a number of Japanese exporters.
Yen, Weak Sales Hit Nintendo Juro Osawa 2010
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In Nomura's cash-cow retail brokerage, revenue dropped 21% to 87.8 billion yen from the prior quarter due to the strong yen and extremely sluggish client activity over the summer months.
Nomura Cautious As Net Tumbles Atsuko Fukase 2010
lampbane commented on the word yen
¥ or 円
September 7, 2008
marco_nj commented on the word yen
"a yen for branded clothes"
January 23, 2009