different between wone vs wons

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English wonen (“to abide, dwell”), from Old English wunian (“to dwell, be accustomed to”), from Proto-Germanic *wun?n? (“to be wont; dwell”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh?- (“to strive; wish; love”).

Alternative forms

• won, wonne

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /w??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /wo?n/

Noun

wone (plural wones)

1. (obsolete or archaic, poetic) A dwelling.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Volume 2, vii:20 (see also xii:11)

     What secret place (quoth he) can safely hold

     So huge a masse, and hide from heaven's eye?

     Or where hast thou thy wonne, that so much gold

     Thou canst preserve from wrong and robbery?

   • 1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence, I:XXXVII

     On the cool height awhile out Palmers ?tay,

     And ?pite even of them?elves their Sen?es chear;

     Then to the Wizard's Wonne their Steps they ?teer.

Translations

Verb

wone (third-person singular simple present wones, present participle woning, simple past and past participle woned)

1. (obsolete or archaic, dialectal) To live, reside, stay.
   • 1460-1500, The Towneley Plays?

     This I make thy woning place, full of mirth and of solace.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Volume 2, iii:18 (see also i:51, vii:49, ix:52, and xii:69):

     For now the best and noblest knight alive

     Prince Arthur is, that wonnes in Faerie Lond;

     He hath a sword, that flames like burning brond.

   • 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 17:

     Then we entered the city and found all who therein woned into black stones enstoned […]

Derived terms

• inwone
• woning

Translations

Etymology 2

Southern variant of wane (“dwelling”), probably from Old Norse ván.

Noun

wone (plural wones)

1. (obsolete, poetic) A house, home, habitation.
   • 1460-1500, The Towneley Plays?

     It is not good to be alone, to walk here in this worthly wone.

Etymology 3

From Middle English wone (“custom, habit”), from Old English wuna (“custom, habit, practice, ritual”), from Proto-Germanic *wunô (“practise”), from Proto-Germanic *wun- (“to wish, love”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh?- (“to wish, love”).

Noun

wone (plural wones)

1. Custom, habit, practice.
2. Use, usage.

Synonyms

• wont

Anagrams

• Owen, enow, owne

Chuukese

Numeral

wone

1. sixty

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

wone

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of wonen

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English wuna (“custom, habit, practise, ritual”)

Noun

wone (plural wones)

1. custom, habit

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ony.

Pronoun

wone

1. they (nonvirile plural)

Declension

English

Verb

wons

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of won

Anagrams

• Snow, nows, owns, snow, sow'n, sown

French

Noun

wons m

1. plural of won

Vilamovian

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish w?s, from Proto-Slavic *?s?.

Noun

wons m

1. moustache