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alternative obsolete agoe · alternative obsolete agon · alternative obsolete agone · alternative obsolete ygo · alternative obsolete ygoe

1. Before now, before the present time

   I got married ten years ago.

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   When they first met in 2000, my dad told my mom how he had gotten the money. The story begins 20 years ago.

   It was two weeks ago that I saw her last.

   Two years ago a pair of scientists sparked fears of a devastating virus.

   2013 August 10, “Damned if you don’t”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848

alternative obsolete agoe · alternative obsolete agon · alternative obsolete agone · alternative obsolete ygo · alternative obsolete ygoe

1. archaicdialectalnot comparableGone; gone by; gone away; passed; passed away.

   in days ago / in days agone

2. archaicdialectalnot comparableNearly gone; dead. (used in Devonshire at the turn of the 19th century)

   Woe the day—she is agone!

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Attorney General's Office.