agone
See also: Agone
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɒn
Adverb
agone (not comparable)
- (archaic or dialectal, Northern England) Alternative form of ago
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 1 Samuel 30:13:
- Three days agone I fell sick.
- 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 2
- And many a serpent of fell kind, / With wings before, and stings behind, / Subdued; as poets say, long agone, / Bold Sir George, Saint George did the dragon.
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Anagrams
- Ganoe, Genao, Genoa, Onega, genoa
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈɡo.ne/
- Rhymes: -one
- Hyphenation: a‧gó‧ne
Noun
agone m (plural agoni)
- agon (all senses); contest, competition, litigation; battlefield
- shad (Alosa agone)
Derived terms
- agonale
Latin
Noun
agōne
- ablative singular of agōn
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English ago, agon (“passed”), past participle of agon (“to depart, escape, pass”).
Adverb
agone
- ago
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
- A while agone .
- A while ago.
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References
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 22