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wont | wong |

As a noun wont

is one’s habitual way of doing things, practice, custom.

As an adjective wont

is (archaic) accustomed or used (to'' or ''with a thing).

As a verb wont

is (archaic) to make (someone) used to; to accustom.

As a proper noun wong is

of chinese origin.

wont

English

Etymology 1

Origin uncertain: apparently a conflation of (wone) and wont (participle adjective, below).

Noun

(en-noun)
  • One’s habitual way of doing things, practice, custom.
    • He awoke at the crack of dawn, as was his wont .
  • * Milton
    • They are to be called out to their military motions, under sky or covert, according to the season, as was the Roman 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 , page 142:
    • As was also the wont of international conferences, a delegate from Pennsylvania, 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 [...]

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (archaic) Accustomed or used (to'' or ''with a thing).
  • * Shakespeare
    • I have not that alacrity of spirit, / Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have.
  • * 1843 , '', 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
  • (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
    See also
    * * prone to

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To make (someone) used to; to accustom.
  • (archaic) To be accustomed.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:
    • But by record of antique times I finde / That wemen wont in warres to beare most sway [...].

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    wong

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, except in placenames) A field or other piece of land.

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