wont meaning
EN[wəʊnt] [wʌnt] [wɒnt] [wɔnt] [-əʊnt]US
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- A wont is a habit, or routine of behavior that is repeated regularly and tends to occur subconsciously.
- Wont may refer to:
- Won't, the English contraction for will not
- WONT-LP, former call sign of WBYD-CA, a television station based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- NounPLwonts
- VerbSGwontsPRwontingPT, PPwonted
- (transitive, archaic) To make (someone) used to; to accustom.
- (intransitive, archaic) To be accustomed.
- (transitive, archaic) To make (someone) used to; to accustom.
- Adjective
- (archaic) Accustomed or used (to or with a thing).
- (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
- (archaic) Accustomed or used (to or with a thing).
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- 1819: “One is from Hexamshire; he is wont to trace the Tynedale and Teviotdale thieves, as a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer.” — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
- "O, they wont shoot you," expostulated his friend, high-heartedly.
- What though thy habit differ from thy kinde, Thou maiest retain thy wonted loving minde.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of wont in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary