begone
See also: be gone
English
editEtymology 1
editUniverbation of be + gone. Compare English beware.
Alternative forms
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /biːˈɡɒn/, /bɪˈɡɒn/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɒn
Interjection
editbegone
- (archaic) Expressing a desire or a command for someone or something to go away.
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 157, column 1:
- Fairies be gone, and be alwaies away.
- 1856, Herman Melville, The Lightning Rod Man:
- "Begone! move quickly! if quickly you can, you that shine forth into sight in moist times like the worm."
Derived terms
edit- bego (verb)
Translations
editexpressing a desire or a command for someone or something to go away
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Etymology 2
editInflected forms.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /bəˈɡɒn/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɒn
Verb
editbegone
- past participle of bego
Derived terms
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