wont

Meaning

Noun

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

1. To make (someone) used to; to accustom.
2. To be accustomed (to something), to be in the habit (of doing something).

Synonyms

habit

custom

practice

way

fashion

usage

manner

accustomed

mode

mores

pattern

used to

use

convention

style

method

praxis

regulations

rote

rule

tapa

tradition

treatment

usual

willing

wonted

wontedness

propense

address

agency

apt

characteristic

code

common

conventional

customariness

customary

habitual

habitude

institution

law

ordinary

plain

Pronounced as (IPA)

/wəʊnt/

Etymology

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 *wenh₁- (“to wish for, strive for, pursue; to succeed, win”); more there.