wone

From Middle English wonen (“to abide, dwell”), from Old English wunian (“to dwell, be accustomed to”), from Proto-West Germanic *wunēn, 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.
   • 15th c., “”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 6:

     This I make thi wonnyng playce, / ffull of myrth and of solace

     This I make thy dwelling place, full of mirth and 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

From Middle English wone, variant of wane, from Old Norse ván (“hope, expectation”). The senses relating to dwelling-places apparently derive from the sense relating to expectation, i.e. the home as the place one is expected to be; c.f. von (“place where one expects to find fish”).^[1]

• won, wonne, woon

wone (plural wones)

1. (obsolete, poetic) A house, home, habitation, dwelling.
   • 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.

2. (obsolete, poetic) Wealth, riches.
   • 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?

wone

1. Eye dialect spelling of one.

• Owen, enow, owne

wone

1. sixty

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wone

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of wonen

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

wone (plural wones)

1. custom, habit

See wone.

wone (plural wones)

1. (poetic) Hope; expectation
2. (poetic) Wealth
3. (poetic) Dwelling-place, home. By extension A country, realm. Especially with worthly, the world.
   • 15th c., “”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 6, lines 184–185:

     It is not good to be alone, / to walk here in this worthely wone

     It is not good to be alone, to walk here in this noble world

• English: wone

From Proto-Slavic *ony.

wone

1. they (nonvirile plural)