[won ton] 
| 1. | (in Chinese cooking) a dumpling filled with minced pork and spices, usually boiled in and served with soup but sometimes fried as a side dish. |
| 2. | a soup containing won tons. |
| won ton or won·ton (wŏn'tŏn') n. A noodle-dough dumpling filled typically with spiced minced pork or other ground meat, usually boiled in soup or fried and eaten as a side dish. [Chinese (Cantonese) wān t'ān, equivalent to Chinese (Mandarin) húntun.] |