different between went vs awent

English

Etymology

Originally the simple past and past participle of wend.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /w?nt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /w?nt/, [w?n?(t?)]
• (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /went/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Verb

went

1. simple past tense of go
2. (nonstandard) past participle of go
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, The Faerie Queene, IV.5:

     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

• Rhymes: -?nt

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

English

Verb

awent

1. simple past tense of ago

Anagrams

• Tewan, wante