agone

See also: Agone

English

Etymology

From a- +‎ gone, see ago.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒn

Adverb

agone (not comparable)

1. (archaic or dialectal, Northern England) Alternative form of ago.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 30:13:

     Three days agone I fell sick.

   • 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 2:

     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.

   • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 86:

     Now be attentive while I tell you one
     Out of a hundred and a hundred stories
     'Tis one, however, that concerns us more
     Than all the rest, because it was my own
     Great-great-grandfather that the thing befell,
     In the old time, in years long since agone.

Anagrams

• Ganoe, Genao, Genoa, Onega, genoa

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɡo.ne/
• Rhymes: -one
• Hyphenation: a‧gó‧ne

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin agōn, from Ancient Greek ἀγών (agṓn).

Noun

agone m (plural agoni)

1. agon (all senses); contest, competition, litigation; battlefield

Related terms

• agonale

Further reading

• “agone¹”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

Etymology 2

From ago +‎ -one.

Noun

agone m (plural agoni)

1. shad (Alosa agone)

Further reading

• “agone²”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

Latin

Noun

agōne

1. ablative singular of agōn

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English agon (“passed”), past participle of agon (“to depart, escape, pass”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɡɔːn/

Adverb

agone

1. ago
   • 1867, “GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY“, page 22:

     A while agone.

     A while ago.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 22