# wont

Pronunciation: US say "WAHNT" /wɑnt/; UK say "WOHNT" /wəʊnt/

## Adjective

1. Accustomed to a thing, or in the habit of doing something or inclined to do it.
   - Simple: Used to something, or in the habit of doing it.
   - _The senator, as she is wont to do, answered the question with a question._
   - _Teenagers are wont to sleep late on weekends._

## Noun

2. A person's habitual way of doing things; their usual custom or practice. *(literary)*
   - Simple: What a person usually does, out of habit.
   - _The professor wandered off topic, as was his wont, and the lecture ran long._
   - _It was not her wont to complain, so we knew something was wrong._

## Verb

3. To have a settled habit of doing something, or to be accustomed to it. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: To be used to something, or to do it as a habit.
4. To make someone accustomed to something. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: To make someone used to something.

## Origin

**Meaning 2** — Old English gewunod was the past participle of ġewunian, a verb meaning to dwell or to be accustomed to. The noun may have arisen from a blending of wone ("custom, habit, practice") with the adjective wont. Low German Gewohnte ("custom, habit"), Dutch gewoonte and Swedish van are comparable, and the word is likely connected with wone, wean, wonder and win.
**Meaning 1** — The adjective comes from ġewunod, the past participle of the Old English verb ġewunian. That participle developed into Middle English wont, also spelled iwoned. Dutch has gewend and German has gewohnt, both related.
**Meanings 3–4** — From Middle English wonten ("to accustom"), formed from the adjective wont.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/wont (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).