Usually means: Japanese currency unit for money.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. yen, the yen: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. yen, yen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. yen, yen: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. yen: Collins English Dictionary
  5. yen: Vocabulary.com
  6. Yen, yen: Wordnik
  7. yen: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. yen: Wiktionary
  9. yen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. yen: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. yen: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. yen: Dictionary.com
  13. yen (1), yen (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. yen: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Yen (band), Yen (disambiguation), Yen: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Yen: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. yen: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. yen: Rhymezone
  19. Yen: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. yen: Free Dictionary
  21. yen: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Yen: The Word Detective
  23. yen: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Yen: Infoplease Dictionary

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. yen: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  2. yen: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. yen: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. YEN: Acronym Finder
  2. yen: A Word A Day
  3. YEN: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. yen: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Yen (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. yen, yen, yen: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. Yen: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The unit of Japanese currency (symbol: ¥) since 1871, divided into 100 sen.
noun:  A coin or note worth one yen.
noun:  A strong desire, urge, or yearning.
verb:  (transitive) To have a strong desire for.
noun:  (slang) Opium.
noun:  Alternative form of Yan (ancient kingdom) [(historical) An ancient march, duchy, and kingdom of northeastern China during the Zhou dynasty.]

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