Definizione monolingua

wont

wont (third-person singular simple present wonts, present participle wonting, simple past and past participle wonted)

1. (transitive, archaic) To make (someone) used to; to accustom.
2. (intransitive, archaic) To be accustomed.

wont (usually uncountable; plural wonts)

1. One’s habitual way of doing things, practice, custom.

   He awoke at the crack of dawn, as was his wont.

   • 2006, Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red:

     With a simple-minded desire, and to rid my mind of this irrepressible urge, I retired to a corner of the room, as was my wont [...]

   • 1920, James Brown Scott, The United States of America: a study in international organization:

     As was also the wont of international conferences, a delegate from Penn-j sylvania, in this instance James Wilson, proposed the appointment of a secretary and nominated William Temple Franklin

   • 1914, Items of interest - Page 83:

     Such conditions, having been the common practice for years, and, existing in a less degree in some localities to the present time, afford a tangible reason for a form of correlation that is more universal than it is the wont of the profession to admit [...]

wont (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Accustomed or used (to or with a thing).
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XI, The Abbot’s Ways

     He could read English Manuscripts very elegantly, elegantissime: he was wont to preach to the people in the English tongue, though according to the dialect of Norfolk, where he had been brought up […]

2. (designating habitual behaviour) Accustomed, apt (to doing something).

   He is wont to complain loudly about his job.

   Like a 60-yard Percy Harvin touchdown run or a Joe Haden interception return, Urban Meyer’s jaw-dropping resignation Saturday was, as he’s wont to say, “a game-changer.” — Sunday December 27, 2009, Stewart Mandel, INSIDE COLLEGE FOOTBALL, Meyer’s shocking resignation rocks college coaching landscape

Definizione dizionario wont

	abitudine
	habitual way of doing things
	Usanze e consuetudini tipiche di una collettività o di un gruppo sociale.

	abituato
	accustomed, apt

	costume
	Usanze e consuetudini tipiche di una collettività o di un gruppo sociale.

abituata

avvezzo

solito

Altri significati:

One’s habitual way of doing things, practise, custom.

(designating habitual behaviour) Accustomed, apt ( '''to doing''' something).

(intransitive, archaic) To be accustomed.

(transitive, archaic) To make (someone) used to; to accustom.

(archaic) Accustomed or used ( '''to''' or '''with''' a thing).