mone

M3O1N1E1

verb

To admonish; advise; explain.

OriginMiddle English monien ← Old English monian ← Proto-Germanic *manōną →
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Meanings

mone1

verbmone (third-person singular simple present mones, present participle moning, simple past and past participle moned)

present singular third person mones · participle present moning · participle past moned · past moned

  1. transitiveTo admonish; advise; explain.

mone2

nounmone (plural mones)

plural mones

  1. obsoleteMind; preference.

    A cumber-world, yet in the world am left, / A fruitles plot, with brambles ouergrowne, / Miſliued man of my vvorlds ioy bereft, / Hart-breaking cares the ofspring of my mone.

    1593, Michael Drayton, “The Second Eglog”, in Idea the Shepheards Garland, […], London: […] [T. Orwin] for Thomas Woodcocke, […], →OCLC, page 6

mone3

nounmone (plural mones)

plural mones

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of moan.
  2. obsoleteObsolete spelling of moon.
verbmone (third-person singular simple present mones, present participle moning, simple past and past participle moned)

present singular third person mones · participle present moning · participle past moned · past moned

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of moan.

Mone4

nounMone pl (plural only)
  1. archaicpluralplural onlyArchaic form of Mon (“a people of Myanmar and Thailand”).
proper noun
  1. archaicArchaic form of Mon (“language”).

Mone5

proper nounMone (plural Mones)

plural Mones

  1. A surname.

Origin

mone · verb

  1. Proto-Indo-European*men-“to think”
  2. Proto-Germanic*manōną“to admonish”
  3. Old Englishmonian
  4. Middle Englishmonien
  5. Englishmone

Inherited from Middle English monien, from Old English monian, manian (“to bring to mind what ought to be done, urge upon one what ought to be done, admonish, warn, exhort, instigate, bring to mind what should not be forgotten, remind, suggest, prompt, tell what ought to be done, teach, instruct, advise, claim, demand, ask of a person, remember”), from Proto-Germanic *manōną (“to admonish”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian mania (“to admonish”), Dutch manen (“to admonish”), German mahnen (“to remind, admonish, urge”).

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mone · noun

  1. Old Englishġemynan
  2. Middle Englishminen
  3. Middle Englishmone
  4. Englishmone

Inherited from Middle English mone, alteration (affected by monien (“to admonish”)) of *mine (“mind”), from Middle English minen, mynen, munen, from Old English ġemynan, ġemunan (“to remember”). More at mind.

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mone · noun, verb

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Mone · proper noun

From the Irish surname, spelling variant of Mohan.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

nemonomeomenMoenMenomeonEmonNeomNoem
Cite this entry
APA

mone. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mone

MLA

“mone.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mone. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mone,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mone.

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