English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes with: -ʌn

Noun

1. A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.
2. In the context of "brewing": A fermenting vat.
3. An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 252 wine gallons; equal to two pipes.

   Quotations

   • 1882: Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, p. 205.

4. A weight of 2,240 pounds.
5. An indefinite large quantity.
6. A drunkard; so called humorously, or in contempt.
7. Any shell belonging to Dolium and allied genera; called also tun-shell.

German

Alternative spellings

• i archaic thun

Pronunciation

• [tuːn]

Etymology

Verb

1. To do.
2. To make.

Inari Sami

Pronoun

1. you (sg.)

Mandarin

Pinyin

1. 飢: hunger, starving; hungry; a famine
2. 饣: eat, food; radical number 184

Pinyin syllable

1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, tūn, tún, tǔn, or tùn.

Usage notes

Old English

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

1. An enclosed piece of ground, an enclosure or garden.
2. The enclosed ground belonging to an individual dwelling.
3. The group of houses on an area of enclosed land, a homestead.
4. A large inhabited place, a town.

Descendants

• English town

Related terms

• tȳnan
• dūn "dune, hill, mountain"

See also

• dōn "to place, put, set"

Romanian

Etymology

Noun

1. cannon

Romansch

Noun

1. sound
2. thunder

• An antiquated British measurement of liquid volume, approximately 252 gallons or 954 litres
  • A cask with a volume of one tun, especially of wine.
• An insulated vessel with a false bottom used in brewing, as in lauter tun or mash tun.
• A Malay title or honorific
• The Mayan word for unit of time in the Long Count calendar, equal to 360 days or 18 winal
• Tun (तुन), the Indian name for Toona ciliata wood
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• An Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse word describing a homestead or settlement, from which the English word "town" evolved
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