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went

SayWENTUK/wɛnt/AUS/went/

4 meanings of went

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  1. 1
    verb
    Past tense of go. Use it for the past.

    We went to the beach last weekend.

    She went home early because she felt sick.

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  2. 2
    verbnonstandard
    Past participle of go. Some speakers use it after have or had, though standard English uses gone.

    I should have went with you to the doctor.

    They had went home before the rain started.

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  3. 3
    verbarchaic
    Simple past and past participle of wend. An old use: today wend has wended, and went is the past of go.
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Less common meaning

  1. 4
    nounobsolete
    A road, path, or trip from one place to another.

    The old went led straight to the village well.

    But here my wearie teeme, nigh over spent, / Shall breathe it selfe awhile after so long a went.
    1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie QueeneHere, went means a journey or way traveled.
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went is a form of go

go, verb: To move from one place to another. Full entry

Forms
gogoes he/she/itgoing -ing formwent past tensegone past participle
Spelling
go → went: irregular (no -ed)

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Origin

This was once the past form of the verb "wend." Now it is used as the past of "go."