noun
wonton
WON-ton
noun
1
A small Chinese dumpling, typically filled with meat or seafood and served in soup or fried.
"We ordered a bowl of wonton soup to warm up on the cold walk home."
How to Use Wonton
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA thin-skinned filled dumpling, popular in Chinese cooking, especially in soup.
Common pairings
wonton soup
fried wontons
wonton wrapper
Word Forms
wonton plural, wontons plural
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Etymology
Borrowed from Cantonese wan tan, meaning roughly "swallowing a cloud" — a poetic description of the dumpling floating in broth.