Wont

Definition: Wont

Wont

Noun

1. An established custom; "it was their habit to dine at 7 every evening".

2. A pattern of behavior acquired through frequent repetition; "she had a habit twirling the ends of her hair"; "long use had hardened him to it".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "wont" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Wont \Wont\, intransitive verb [imperfect Wont, past participle Wont, or Wonted; Wonting.]. (references)

Synonyms: Wont

Impulse

Wont; used to, given to, addicted to, attuned to, habituated; Verb: in the habit of; habitue; at home in; (skillful); seasoned; imbued with; devoted to, wedded to.

Verb: be wont; Adjective:

As usual, as is one's wont, as things go, as the world goes, as the sparks fly upwards; more suo, more solito; ex more.

Crosswords: Wont

Never ever, ever say you'll be right back cause you wont be back (Scream; writing credit: Kevin Williamson)

One day I wont come at all. (Where Eagles Dare; writing credit: Alistair MacLean;)

With a woman working here, we wont be able to spit on the floor anymore (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

In other news, I wont be going to the play because I'm sure it will be lousy (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)

It was killed by a virtuous knight who pierced the demon's heart before it could draw breath to perform the act. Acathla turned to stone, as demons sometimes do, and was buried where neither man nor demon would be wont to look (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

And I wont turn around (Duck And Run; performing artist: 3 Doors Down)

You will wait for me, I wont be too late (Caught In The Sun; performing artist: Course Of Nature)

You wont hear a thang, know you won't (Can't Deny It; performing artist: Fabolous)

Oh, you probably wont remember me (Insensitive; performing artist: Jann Arden)

My eyes wont let me hide (Lately; performing artist: Jodeci)

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Books

• Big Evasion: Abortion the Issue That Wont Go Away (reference)

• Cover Us Daddy So the Wrong Fires Wont Start [ABRIDGED] (reference)

• Dont Look and It Wont Hurt (reference)

• It Wont Work (Courteous Kids) (reference)

• Nuclear Waste: The Problem That Wont Go Away (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Americant (Or Wont) (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Grant to Hayes - I guess that reform bait wont work this side. Better try and anti-Catholic worm. Credit: Library of Congress.

West Danville, Vermont. Frank Goss, seventy-one year old farmer, in front of Gilbert S. Hastings General Store and post office reading his mail which includes a card saying that his last year's hired man "wont be aroun for hayin' this year on account of h. Credit: Library of Congress.

A "Dodge" that wont work. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

When American military men approach some serious situation they are wont to write at the head of their directive the words "over-all strategic concept." There is wisdom in this, as it leads to clarity of thought. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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She saw her own face, glowing with girlish beauty, and illuminating all the interior of the dusky mirror in which she had been wont to gaze at it.

He had acted with impetuosity, according to his wont, having, a despot become a slave, but one thought, to satisfy Marius

I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things

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Expressions using "wont": according to his wont ♦ as he was wont to say ♦ as was his wont ♦ be wont to ♦ be wont to do ♦ wont to. Additional references.

Albanian

zakon (consuetude, custom, groove, habit, habitude, institute, institution, inurnment, knack, manners, mode, practice, praxis, rut, tradition, usage, use, way), shprehi. (various references)

Arabic 

‏متعود (accustomed, used), ‏نزاع (contention, contest, controversy, difference, disagreement, discord, discordance, disputation, dispute, division, duel, embroilment, fray, odds, quarrel, question, row, spar, squall, strife, struggle, tangle, variance), ‏تعود (be accustomed to, familiarization, fixation, get into a rut, get used to it, habituation, settle, take, take on), ‏عود (accustom, be accustomed to, break, condition, flesh, habituate, inure, lute, rod), ‏عادي (average, banal, classless, common, commonplace, conventional, household, lay, mean, medial, mediocre, middling, mundane, natural, normal, ordinary, plain, plebeian, poor, prosaic, run of the mill, second rate, simple, some, stock, trivial, unexceptional), ‏عادة (as a rule, commonly, custom, freak, generally, groove, habit, habit of body, institution, observance, ordinarily, practice, praxis, rite, rubric, rule, usage, usually). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свикнал съм да, свикнал (accustomed to, used, used to), навикнал (used), навик (custom, habit, habitude, knack, manner, practice, use), приучавам (accustom, flesh, school, teach), привиквам (acclimate, accustom, become acclimatized, condition, get acclimatized, get the habit, habituate, inure). (various references)

Chinese 

不会将 (Won't). (various references)

Czech

zvyklý (custom-built, used, wonted), zvyk (consuetude, custom, form, habit, rote, trick, usage, use, way). (various references)

Farsi 

معتادبه , عادت (Accustom, Addict, Custom, Hank, Rote, Rut, Ure, Usage, Vogue), خوگرفته (Addict), خوگرفتن یاخودادن , اموخته (Taught), رسم (Custom, Mode, Order, Trace, Tradition, Usage). (various references)

French

habituel (wonted), habitude, coutume. (various references)

German

gewohnt (accustomed, customary, dwelt, familiar, habitual, habitually, used, usual, wonted). (various references)

Greek 

συνηθισμένοσ (accustomed, common, conventional, customary, habitual, ordinary, used to, usual, wonted), συνήθεια (convention, custom, customariness, habit, practice, practise, rote, use, wontedness). (various references)

Hebrew 

הרגל (custom, groove, habit, habituation), רגיל (accustomed, common, habitual, mediocre, ordinary, par, simple, standard, stock, unexceptional, usual, wonted). (various references)

Hungarian

szokás (custom, fashion, habit, institution, mode, modernism, practice, rule, use, way). (various references)

Indonesian

kebiasaan (custom, fashion, habit, natural, usage). (various references)

Italian

solito (customary, ordinary, stock, usual, wonted), costume (costume, custom, fancy dress, habit, outfit, suit, usage, use, way), abitudine (addiction, consuetude, custom, habit, habitude, inurement, practice, trick), abituato (accustomed, habituated, seasoned). (various references)

Manx

oash (custom, fashion, formality, habit, manner, mannerism, vogue). (various references)

Pig Latin

ontway.(various references)

Portuguese

habituado (accustomed, habituated), afeito, acostumado (accustomed, used to). (various references)

Romanian

obicei (consuetude, convention, custom, dead letter, groove, habit, habitude, manner, observance, practice, praxis, rut, tradition, usage, use, way), obişnuinţã (fashion, habit, habitude, ordinariness, usage), deprindere (habit, habituation, habitude, inurement, knack, manner, skill). (various references)

Russian 

обыкновение (habit), привычка (custom, habit, habitude, inurement, knack, rut, use), иметь привычку. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

običaj (consuetude, custom, practice), navika (habit, habitude, practice, routine). (various references)

Spanish

costumbre (consuetude, convention, custom, habit, institution, practice, praxis, rule, the custom, usage, use, way), acostumbrado (acclimated, acclimatized, accustomed, customary, habitual, used, usual, wonted). (various references)

Swedish

van (accustomed, conditioned, practised, skilled, trained, used to, wonted). (various references)

Turkish

alışmış (accustomed), alışkanlık haline getirmiş, alışkanlık (consuetude, custom, habit, habitude, practice, praxis, routine, use), adet (bleeding, consuetude, convention, courses, custom, element, fashion, flow, fragment, groove, habit, item, menses, menstruation, mounthly courses, mounthly periods, number, numeral, particle, period, praxis, routine, sum, the usual thing, total, tradition, usage, use). (various references)

Ukrainian

що має звичку, мати звичку (make habit, practise), звичка (custom, habit, habitude, rule, way), звичай (consuetude, convention, custom, habit, habitude, mode, observance, practice, praxis, rite, usage, way). (various references)

mos. (various references)

wunian. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "wont": wonted, wontedly, wontedness, wontednesses, wonting, wonton, wontons, wonts. (additional references)

Words containing "wont": unwonted, unwontedly, unwontedness, unwontednesses. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: nowt, town.

-1 letter: not, now, own, ton, tow, two, won, wot.

-2 letters: no, on, ow, to, wo.

+1 letter: nowts, towns, towny, wonts.

+2 letters: intown, newton, strown, thrown, towing, townee, townie, uptown, wanton, wonted, wonton.

+3 letters: bowknot, crownet, cutdown, fanwort, forwent, letdown, midtown, network, newtons, nutwood, outfawn, outgnaw, outwent, outwind, outworn, putdown, stowing, tinwork, towline, towmond, towmont, townees, townies, townish, townlet, trowing, uptowns, wantons, whatnot, wonting, wontons, wotting.

+4 letters: bentwood, bestrown, boomtown, bowfront, bowknots, brownest, brownout, crownets, cutdowns, danewort, downbeat, downcast, downiest, downtick, downtime, downtown, downtrod, downturn, fanworts, footworn, forewent, hawthorn, hometown, honewort, hornwort, ingrowth, interrow, knotweed, kotowing, letdowns, lungwort, meltdown, midtowns, moonwort, nanowatt, networks, nonwhite, nutbrown, nutwoods, outdrawn, outfawns, outflown, outfrown, outgnawn, outgnaws, outgrown, outsworn, outwinds, putdowns, sandwort, shutdown, snowbelt, snowiest, snowmelt, snowsuit, strowing, swotting, takedown, teardown, thindown, throwing, timeworn, tinworks, toilworn, toweling, towering, towlines, towmonds, towmonts, townfolk, townhome, townless, townlets, township, townsman, townsmen, townwear, turndown, twinborn, twopence, twopenny, undertow, untoward, unwonted, unworthy, upthrown, uptowner, wainscot, wantoned, wantoner, wantonly, whatnots, whodunit, wonkiest, wontedly, woodnote, worsting, worthing, wrongest.