went

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noun

A course; a way, a path; a journey.

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Meanings

went1

verb
  1. pastsimple past of go
  2. 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 145
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    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 22

    I 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
  3. archaicparticiplepastsimple past and past participle of wend
nounwent (plural wents)

plural wents

  1. obsoleteA course; a way, a path; a journey.

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

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

    Synonyms: gaed, eode, yead, yede, yode, gone, wended

Went2

proper nounWent (countable and uncountable, plural Wents)

plural Wents

  1. countableuncountableA surname from Middle English.
  2. 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.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA course; a way, a path; a journey.

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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)).

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Went · proper noun

  1. Middle Englishwent“crossroad, passage”
  2. EnglishWent

Topographic surname, from Middle English went (“crossroad, passage”).

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APA

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MLA

“went.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/went. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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