Meanings
went1
- pastsimple past of go
- nonstandardparticiplepastpast participle of go
I went from Filley's to Fitch's house, to talk of oxen; no one went with me; might have went to the mill; don,t remember whether I rode back to Laycock's or not to dinner.
1851, Abel F. Fitch, Report of the Great Conspiracy Case […] , Advertiser and Free Press, page 1452 more examples
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.
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, page 22I just sat around and watched, then decided to go see Safid; we planned to study that day, but first we had a good ride around town. We must have went fifteen miles, and Safid was ready to sit and study; we went to a little park and started working.
2010 June 14, Douglas Nix, Al-Qaeda Hunter, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 22 - archaicparticiplepastsimple past and past participle of wend
plural wents
Went2
plural Wents
- countableuncountableA surname from Middle English.
- countableuncountableThe 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.
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Origin
went · verb, noun
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)).
Full word history & related roots →Went · proper noun
- Middle Englishwent“crossroad, passage”
- EnglishWent
Topographic surname, from Middle English went (“crossroad, passage”).
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Cite this entry
went. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/went
“went.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/went. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “went,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/went.
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