Went

//wɛnt// name, noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A course; a way, a path; a journey. obsolete

    "But here my wearie teeme, nigh over spent, / Shall breathe it selfe awhile after so long a went."

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past of go form-of, past
  2. 2
    past participle of go form-of, nonstandard, participle, past

    "When they arrived whither they were bent, / He made as if he farther would have went. / But they conſtrain'd him, ſaying, Night is near; / Abide with us; and ſo he tarry'd there."

  3. 3
    simple past and past participle of wend archaic, form-of, participle, past
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Middle English. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    The River Went, a river in West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire, England, a tributary of the River Don. It forms the boundary between South Yorkshire and both North Yorkshire and the East Riding in its lower reaches. countable, uncountable

Synonyms

All synonyms
eodegaedgaedgonegonewended

Example

More examples

"This is my friend Rachel. We went to high school together."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Originally the simple past and past participle of wend, but now the past of go due to suppletion. While wend is akin to wind, compare typologically Russian смота́ться (smotátʹsja), сма́тываться (smátyvatʹsja), умота́ть (umotátʹ), ума́тывать (umátyvatʹ) (akin to мота́ть (motátʹ)).

Etymology 2

Topographic surname, from Middle English went (“crossroad, passage”).

Related phrases

been gonedouble you

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