wone

From Middle English wonen (“to abide, dwell”), from Old English wunian (“to dwell, be accustomed to”), from Proto-Germanic *wunāną (“to be wont; dwell”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive; wish; love”).

• won, wonne

• (UK) IPA^(key): /wəʊn/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /woʊn/
• Rhymes: -əʊn, -oʊn

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 a Night, Night 17:

     Then we entered the city and found all who therein woned into black stones enstoned […]

• inwone
• woning

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

• won, wonne, woon

wone (plural wones)

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

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

   • 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.

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”).

wone (countable and uncountable, plural wones)

1. Custom, habit, practice.

• wont

• Owen, enow, owne

wone

1. sixty

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wone

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of wonen

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

wone (plural wones)

1. custom, habit

From Proto-Slavic *ony.

wone

1. they (nonvirile plural)