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wones

wones is the plural of wone.

wones is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wone.

Meaning of wone

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)

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Questions about wones

What is wones the plural of?
Wones is the plural of wone.

Words near wones in the dictionary

  1. wondrously
  2. wondrousness
  3. wone
  4. woned
  5. Wonersh
  6. wones
  7. wonesite
  8. wonest
  9. WONF
  10. wong
  11. wong bok

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wones (page history and authors); wone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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