Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb & adjective Gone by; past.
- adverb & adjective In the past.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Gone; gone by; gone away; past; passed away: always after the noun.
- In past time; in time gone by: only in the phrase long ago.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- Past; gone by; since
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective archaic or dialectal
Gone ; gone by; gone away; passed; passed away. - adjective archaic or dialectal Nearly gone;
dead (used in Devonshire at the turn of the 19th century) - adverb in the
past
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective gone by; or in the past
- adverb in the past
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A week ago (A little more cheese, waiter) a week ago I grieved for the dying summer.
A Word for Autumn 1921
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A short time ago -- (this _not long ago_ is with us men -- centuries) -- my rays followed a young artist; it was in the realm of the Pope, in the city of the world, in Rome.
The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales. Fanny [Translator] Fuller 1840
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Everything is saved, that is something the church is closed not too long ago, 66 years ago» Enthusiasts of the Society for the Study of Russian manor in the record books and photographs, as destroyed the last nest of the old Russia, carrying tourists and - shrug.
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Everything is saved, that is something the church is closed not too long ago, 66 years ago» Enthusiasts of the Society for the Study of Russian manor in the record books and photographs, as destroyed the last nest of the old Russia, carrying tourists and - shrug.
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qroqqa commented on the word ago
Problem of classification: preposition or adverb? A construction like 'three weeks ago' is similar to 'three weeks later', where 'later' is the head adverb and 'three weeks' is a premodifier. However, in all such unequivocally adverbial senses, the modifier is optional. Since 'ago' can't be used on its own, the CGEL takes it to be a preposition and the NP 'three weeks' to be its preposed complement.
July 7, 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word ago
I was wondering whether the "go" part of this was a clue.
August 22, 2018