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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Accustomed; usual: striding along with her wonted purposefulness.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Accustomed; made or having become familiar by using, frequenting, etc.
  2. Customary or familiar by being used, done, frequented, enjoined, experienced, or the like; usual.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Usual, customary, habitual, or accustomed.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Accustomed; customary; usual.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. commonly used or practiced; usual.

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English woonted ("usual, customary"), from wont ("custom, habit, practice"), alteration of wone ("custom, habit, practice"), from Old English wuna ("custom, habit, practice", also "usual, wonted"), from Proto-Germanic *wunô (“custom, practice”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenə- (“to wish, love”). Cognate with Old Frisian wona, wuna ("custom"), Old High German giwona ("custom"). More at wont, wone. (Wiktionary)

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