WONT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does wont mean? 

• WONT (noun)
  The noun WONT has 1 sense:

1. an established custom

  Familiarity information: WONT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WONT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An established custom

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

habit; wont

Context example:

it was their habit to dine at 7 every evening

Hypernyms ("wont" is a kind of...):

custom; tradition (a specific practice of long standing)

 Context examples 

A-beefin’ and bellerin’ ’round, as though he’d kill you when he gets you! You know damn well he wont. Can’t afford to.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But here comes my harness, and I must to work, for I cannot slip into it as I was wont when first I set my face to the wars.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She looks so sweet as she sleeps; but she is paler than is her wont, and there is a drawn, haggard look under her eyes which I do not like.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He did not playfully shake him, as was his wont, or murmur soft love curses; but he whispered in his ear.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

As Peggotty was wont to tell me, long ago, the followers of my father to the same grave were made ready in the same room.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She was willing to allow he might have more good qualities than she had been wont to suppose.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I have traversed a vast portion of the earth and have endured all the hardships which travellers in deserts and barbarous countries are wont to meet.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But Collie did not give over, as was her wont, after a decent interval of chastisement.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Lord John came abreast of me, however, and his face was more grave than was his wont.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“No, it is not selfishness or conceit,” said he, answering, as was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)