wont
Meanings
Plural: wonts
Noun
- an established custom
- One's habitual way of doing things; custom, habit, practice.
Adj
- Accustomed or used (to or with a thing), accustomed or apt (to do something).
Verb
- To make (someone) used to; to accustom.
- To be accustomed (to something), to be in the habit (of doing something).
Origin / Etymology
From Old English gewunod, past participle of ġewunian (“to be accustomed to, dwell”), possibly as a conflation of wone (“custom, habit, practice”) and wont (participle adjective, below).
Compare German Low German Gewohnte (“custom, habit”), Dutch gewoonte, Swedish van. Likely related to wone, wonder, wean, and win.
Scrabble Score: 7
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Words With Friends Score: 8
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