went

See also: Went

English

Etymology

Originally the simple past and past participle of wend, but now the past of go due to suppletion.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /wɛnt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /wɛnt/, [wɛnʔ(t̚)]
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /went/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Verb

went

1. simple past tense of go
2. (nonstandard) past participle of go
   • 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^[1], page 22:

     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.

   • 1851, Douglas Nix, Report of the Great Conspiracy Case […] ‎^[2], Advertiser and Free Press, page 145:

     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.

   • 2010 June 14, Douglas Nix, Al-Qaeda Hunter‎^[3], Xlibris, →ISBN, 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.

3. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of wend

Derived terms

• wentest, wenteth (both archaic)

Noun

went (plural wents)

1. (obsolete) A course; a way, a path; a journey.
   • c. 1374-1385, Geoffrey Chaucer, Hous of Fame

     At a turninge of a wente.

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

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

Synonyms

• (simple past): gaed, eode, yead, yede, yode
• (past participle): gone
• (wend): wended

Anagrams

• newt, twen

Breton

Noun

went

1. Soft mutation of gwent.

Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Verb

went

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of wennen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of wennen

Scots

Verb

went

1. simple past tense of gan