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tun

Pronunciation: /tuːn/

“tun” is a Danish word. Its 4 meanings in English:

noun

  1. tuna
  2. tuna fish
  3. tun
  4. An enclosed piece of ground.

Etymology

A contraction of tunfisk, from German Thunfisch (“tuna”), from Latin thunnus, from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos).

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