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. (archaic, transitive) To make (someone) used to; to accustom.
2. (archaic, intransitive) 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

Translations

abitudine

hábito

habitude

gewoonte

coutume

Gewohnheit

costume

costumbre

hábito

συνήθεια

mos

costume

Brauch

Usus

Angewohnheit

Pronounced as (IPA)

/wəʊnt/

Etymology

Cognate with Dutch: gewoonte

Inherited from Middle English: wont

Inherited from Old English: ġewunod

Inherited from Middle English: wonten

In summary

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.