Wont
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English
Noun
Wont (usually uncountable; plural Wonts)- One’s habitual way of doing things, practise, custom.
- He awoke at the crack of dawn, as was his wont.
- 2006, Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red:
- 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 [...]
- 1920, James Brown Scott, The United States of America: a study in international organization:
- As was also the wont of international conferences, a delegate from Penn-j sylvania, in this instance James Wilson, proposed the appointment of a secretary and nominated William Temple Franklin
- 1914, Items of interest - Page 83:
- Such conditions, having been the common practice for years, and, existing in a less degree in some localities to the present time, afford a tangible reason for a form of correlation that is more universal than it is the wont of the profession to admit [...]
Adjective
Wont (not comparable)
- (archaic) Accustomed or used (to or with a thing).
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XI, The Abbot’s Ways
- He could read English Manuscripts very elegantly, elegantissime: he was wont to preach to the people in the English tongue, though according to the dialect of Norfolk, where he had been brought up […]
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XI, The Abbot’s Ways
- (designating habitual behaviour) Accustomed, apt (to doing something).
- He is wont to complain loudly about his job.
- Like a 60-yard Percy Harvin touchdown run or a Joe Haden interception return, Urban Meyer’s jaw-dropping resignation Saturday was, as he’s wont to say, “a game-changer.” — Sunday December 27, 2009, Stewart Mandel, INSIDE COLLEGE FOOTBALL, Meyer’s shocking resignation rocks college coaching landscape
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.
Thesaurus
acclimate, acclimated, acclimatize, acclimatized, accommodate, accommodated, accustom, accustomed, adapt, adapted, adjust, adjusted, automatism, bad habit, be used to, be wont, bon ton, break, break in, case harden, case-hardened, characteristic, condition, conditioned, confirm, conformity, consuetude, convention, creature of habit, custom, domesticate, domesticize, establish, established way, etiquette, experienced, familiarize, familiarized, fashion, fix, folkway, force of habit, gentle, get used to, habit, habit pattern, habituate, habitude, harden, hardened, housebreak, inure, inured, manner, manners, mores, naturalize, naturalized, observance, orient, orientate, orientated, oriented, pattern, peculiarity, practice, praxis, prescription, proper thing, ritual, run-in, season, seasoned, second nature, social convention, standard behavior, standard usage, standing custom, stereotype, stereotyped behavior, take to, tame, time-honored practice, tradition, train, trained, trick, usage, use, used to, way, what is done, wonted, wonting
Pronunciation
- enPR: wŏnt or wōnt, IPA: /wɒnt/ or /wəʊnt/, SAMPA: /wQnt/ or /w@Unt/
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Audio (US) noicon (file) - Rhymes: -əʊnt
Etymology 1
Origin uncertain: apparently a conflation of wone and wont (participle adjective, below).
Etymology 2
Old English ġewunod, past participle of ġewunian.
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