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, General New Zealand) IPA(key): /went/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

Verb

went

  1. simple past tense of go
  2. (nonstandard) past participle of go
  3. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of wend

Derived terms

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.

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Breton

Noun

went

  1. Soft mutation of gwent.

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

Verb

went

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

Scots

Verb

went

  1. simple past tense of gan
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