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wont
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /w??nt/, /w?nt/
- (General American) enPR: w?nt, wônt, w?nt, w?nt, IPA(key): /w?nt/, /w?nt/, /wo?nt/, /w?nt/
- Rhymes: -??nt
- Homophone: want (some pronunciations)
- Homophone: won't (some pronunciations)
Etymology 1
Origin uncertain; apparently a conflation of wone (“custom, habit, practice”) and wont (participle adjective, below). Compare German Low German Gewohnte (“custom, habit”) and Dutch gewoonte. Likely related to wone, wonder, wean, and win, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wenh?- (“to wish for, strive for, pursue; to succeed, win”); more there.
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Noun
wont (usually uncountable, plural wonts)
- (archaic) One's habitual way of doing things; custom, habit, practice.
- 2001, Orhan Pamuk; Erda? M. Göknar, transl., “I am Called Black”, in My Name Is Red, London: Faber and Faber, ?ISBN; paperback edition, London: Faber and Faber, 2002, ?ISBN, page 62:
- With a simple-minded desire, and to rid my mind of this irrepressible urge, I retired to a corner of the room, as was my wont, but after a while I realized I couldn't jack off—proof well enough that I'd fallen in love again after twelve years!
- 2001, Orhan Pamuk; Erda? M. Göknar, transl., “I am Called Black”, in My Name Is Red, London: Faber and Faber, ?ISBN; paperback edition, London: Faber and Faber, 2002, ?ISBN, page 62:
Translations
See also
- meo more
Etymology 2
From Middle English wont, iwoned, from Old English ?ewunod, past participle of ?ewunian. The verb is derived from the adjective.
Adjective
wont (not comparable)
- Accustomed or used (to or with a thing), accustomed or apt (to do something).
- c. 1580, Edmund Spenser, “The Teares of the Mvses[: Thalia]”, in Complaints: Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. VVhereof the Next Page Maketh Mention, London: Imprinted for VVilliam Ponsonbie, dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Bishops head, published 1591, ?OCLC; republished in “The Teares of the Mvses[: Thalia]”, in The Faerie Qveen: The Shepheards Calendar: Together with the Other Works of England's Arch-Pöet, Edm. Spenser: Collected into One Volume, and Carefully Corrected, London: Printed by H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes, 1617, ?OCLC:
- What be the ?weet delights of learning a trea?ure, / That wont with Comick ?ock to beautify / The painted Theaters, and fill with plea?ure / The li?tners eyes, and eares with melodie; […]
- c. 1580, Edmund Spenser, “The Teares of the Mvses[: Thalia]”, in Complaints: Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. VVhereof the Next Page Maketh Mention, London: Imprinted for VVilliam Ponsonbie, dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Bishops head, published 1591, ?OCLC; republished in “The Teares of the Mvses[: Thalia]”, in The Faerie Qveen: The Shepheards Calendar: Together with the Other Works of England's Arch-Pöet, Edm. Spenser: Collected into One Volume, and Carefully Corrected, London: Printed by H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes, 1617, ?OCLC:
Derived terms
- unwont
- use and wont
- wontly
Translations
See also
- prone to
- used to
Verb
wont (third-person singular simple present wonts, present participle wonting, simple past and past participle wonted)
- (transitive, archaic) To make (someone) used to; to accustom.
- (intransitive, archaic) To be accustomed (to something), to be in the habit (of doing something).
- 1751, [Thomas Gray], An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church-yard, London: Printed for R[obert] Dodsley in Pall-Mall; and sold by M[ary] Cooper in Pater-noster-Row, ?OCLC; republished as “An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard”, in A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands, volume IV, 2nd edition, London: Printed by J. Hughs, for R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley, at Tully's-Head in Pall-Mall, 1758, ?OCLC, page 5:
- On ?ome fond brea?t the parting ?oul relies, / Some pious drops the clo?ing eye requires; / Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, / Ev'n in our A?hes live their wonted Fires.
- 1751, [Thomas Gray], An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church-yard, London: Printed for R[obert] Dodsley in Pall-Mall; and sold by M[ary] Cooper in Pater-noster-Row, ?OCLC; republished as “An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard”, in A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands, volume IV, 2nd edition, London: Printed by J. Hughs, for R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley, at Tully's-Head in Pall-Mall, 1758, ?OCLC, page 5:
Translations
Anagrams
- Town, nowt, town
Middle English
Alternative forms
- wonte, wontt, woont
Etymology
From Old English wand, wond, from Proto-Germanic *wanduz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /w?nt/, /w??nt/
Noun
wont (plural wontes)
- mole (Talpa europea)
- Synonyms: moldewarpe, molle
Descendants
- English: want (dialectal)
- Scots: want
References
- “wont(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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wons
English
Verb
wons
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of won
Anagrams
- Snow, nows, owns, snow, sow'n, sown
French
Noun
wons m
- plural of won
Vilamovian
Etymology
Borrowed from Polish w?s, from Proto-Slavic *?s?.
Noun
wons m
- moustache
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