went

English

Etymology

Originally the simple past and past participle of wend.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /wɛnt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /wɛnt/, [wɛnʔ(t̚)]
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /went/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Verb

went

1. simple past of go
2. (nonstandard) past participle of go
   • 1671, Elisha Coles, chapter 7, in ΧΡΙΣΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ: Or, a Metrical Paraphraſe on the Hiſtory of Our Lord and Saviour Jeſus Chriſt : Dedicated to His Univerſal Church‎^[1], page 22:

     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. (archaic) simple past and past participle of wend

Derived terms

• wentest, wenteth (both archaic)

Noun

went (plural wents)

1. (obsolete) A course; a way, a path; a journey.
   • Chaucer

     At a turning of a wente.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.5:

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

Synonyms

• (simple past): gaed, eode, yead, yede, yode
• (past participle): gone
• (wend): wended

Anagrams

• newt

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Breton

Noun

went

1. Soft mutation of gwent.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Verb

went

1. (deprecated template usage) second- and third-person singular present indicative of wennen
2. (deprecated template usage) (archaic) plural imperative of wennen

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Scots

Verb

went

1. simple past tense of gan