wont

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /wʌnt/|/wəʊnt/|/wɒnt/    美 /wʌnt/|/wɑnt/|/wɔnt/|/woʊnt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One's habitual way of doing things; custom, habit, practice. archaic,humorous,uncountable,usually
    — He awoke at the crack of dawn, as was his wont.
动词 v.
  1. To make (someone) used to; to accustom. archaic,transitive
    — I have heard it remarked by the old farmers, that when beasts are first transferred from one place to another, that if they keep them without food for two or three days, it will go far towards wonting them to their new situation.
  2. To be accustomed (to something), to be in the habit (of doing something). archaic,intransitive
    — What be the ſweet delights of learning a treaſure, / That wont with Comick ſock to beautify / The painted Theaters, and fill with pleaſure / The liſtners eyes, and eares with melodie; […]
形容词 adj.
  1. Accustomed or used (to or with a thing), accustomed or apt (to do something). not-comparable
    — He is wont to complain loudly about his job.

词形变化

wonts plural wonts present,singular,third-person wonting participle,present wonted participle,past wonted past

词源

词源 1
From Middle English wont, from Old English ġewunod, past participle of ġewunian (“to be accustomed to, dwell”), the noun sense possibly arising via conflation of wone (“custom, habit, practice”) and the adjective wont.
Compare German Low German Gewohnte (“custom, habit”), Dutch gewoonte, Swedish van. Likely related to wone, wonder, wean, and win.
词源 2
From Middle English wont, iwoned, from Old English ġewunod, past participle of ġewunian. Cognate with German gewohnt and Dutch gewend.
词源 3
From Middle English wonten (“to accustom”), from wont (adjective). See above.
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