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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Accustomed or used: "The poor man is wont to complain that this is a cold world” ( Henry David Thoreau).
  2. adj. Likely: chaotic as holidays are wont to be.
  3. n. Customary practice; usage. See Synonyms at habit.
  4. v. To make accustomed to.
  5. v. To be in the habit of doing something.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Accustomed; in the habit; habituated; using or doing customarily.
  2. Obsolete preterit of won.
  3. To be accustomed or habituated; use; be used.
  4. To dwell; make one's home.
  5. To accustom; habituate.
  6. n. Custom; habit; practice; way.
  7. An obsolete form of want.
  8. n. A variant of want.

Wiktionary

  1. n. One’s habitual way of doing things, practise, custom.
  2. adj. Accustomed or used (to or with a thing).
  3. adj. Accustomed, apt (to doing something).
  4. v. To make (someone) used to; to accustom.
  5. v. To be accustomed.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Using or doing customarily; accustomed; habituated; used.
  2. n. Custom; habit; use; usage.
  3. v. To be accustomed or habituated; to be used.
  4. v. To accustom; -- used reflexively.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an established custom

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, past participle of wonen, to be used to, dwell; see won1.

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