English

Alternative forms

• won, wonne

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /wəʊn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /woʊn/

Noun

wone ‎(plural wones)

1. (obsolete or archaic, poetic) A dwelling.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Volume 2, vii:20 (see also xii:11)

     What secret place (quoth he) can safely hold

     So huge a masse, and hide from heaven's eye?

     Or where hast thou thy wonne, that so much gold

     Thou canst preserve from wrong and robbery?

   • 1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence, I:XXXVII

     On the cool height awhile out Palmers ſtay,

     And ſpite even of themſelves their Senſes chear;

     Then to the Wizard's Wonne their Steps they ſteer.

Translations

Verb

wone ‎(third-person singular simple present wones, present participle woning, simple past and past participle woned)

1. (obsolete or archaic, dialectal) To live, reside, stay.
   • 1460-1500, The Towneley Playsː

     This I make thy woning place, full of mirth and of solace.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Volume 2, iii:18 (see also i:51, vii:49, ix:52, and xii:69)

     For now the best and noblest knight alive

     Prince Arthur is, that wonnes in Faerie Lond;

     He hath a sword, that flames like burning brond.

   • 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 17

     Then we entered the city and found all who therein woned into black stones enstoned.

Translations

Etymology 2

Southern variant of wane ‎(“dwelling”), probably from Old Norse ván.

Noun

wone ‎(plural wones)

1. (obsolete, poetic) A house, home, habitation.
   • 1460-1500, The Towneley Playsː

     It is not good to be alone, to walk here in this worthly wone.

Etymology 3

From Middle English wone ‎(“custom, habit”), from Old English wuna ‎(“custom, habit, practice, ritual”), from Proto-Germanic *wunô ‎(“practise”), from Proto-Germanic *wun- ‎(“to wish, love”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- ‎(“to wish, love”).

Noun

wone ‎(plural wones)

1. custom, habit, practice
2. use, usage

Synonyms

• wont

Anagrams

• enow, Owen, owne

Chuukese

Numeral

wone

1. (cardinal) sixty

Dutch

Verb

wone

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of wonen

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English wuna ‎(“custom, habit, practise, ritual”)

Noun

wone (plural wones)

1. custom, habit