Agone

adv

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    gone by; or in the past wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    Alternative form of ago. Northern-England, alt-of, alternative, archaic, dialectal, not-comparable

    "Three days agone I fell sick."

Synonyms

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agopast

Example

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"And many a serpent of fell kind, / With wings before, and stings behind, / Subdued; as poets say, long agone, / Bold Sir George, Saint George did the dragon."

Etymology

From a- + gone, see ago.

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