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wone

/wəʊn/US/woʊn/

wone verb: to live, reside, stay. Also the eye dialect spelling of one.

Verb

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

  1. (archaic, dialectal, obsolete) To live, reside, stay.
    • This I make thi wonnyng playce, / ffull of myrth and of solace15th c., “[The Creation]”, 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...
    • 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.1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Volume 2, iii:18 (see also i:51, vii:49, ix:52, and xii:69)

Noun

wone (plural wones)

  1. (obsolete, poetic) A house, home, habitation, dwelling.
    • 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.1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence, I:XXXVII
  2. (obsolete, poetic) Wealth, riches.
    • 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?1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Volume 2, vii:20 (see also xii:11)

Also used as

wone is also the eye dialect spelling of one.

Forms of wone

Verb
third-person singular presentwones
present participlewoning
past participlewoned
pastwoned
alternative formwon
alternative formwonne
Noun
pluralwones
alternative formwoon

Origin of 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”).

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; cf. von (“place where one expects to find fish”).

Words formed from wone

Words that rhyme with wone

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Questions about wone

What does wone mean?
Wone means to live, reside, stay.
What part of speech is wone?
Wone can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce wone?
Wone is pronounced /wəʊn/ (UK).
What is the past tense of wone?
The past tense of wone is woned.

Words near wone in the dictionary

  1. wondres
  2. wondring
  3. wondrous
  4. wondrously
  5. wondrousness
  6. wone
  7. woned
  8. Wonersh
  9. wones
  10. wonesite
  11. wonest

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