ago

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   in the past

   Long ago your sibling and I found a treasure chest hidden under this rock.

2. 2
   postp

   Before now, before the present time

   I got married ten years ago.

3. 3
   adj

   Gone; gone by; gone away; passed; passed away.

   in days ago / in days agone

4. 4
   adj

   Nearly gone; dead. (used in Devonshire at the turn of the 19th century)

   Woe the day—she is agone!

5. 5
   adj

   gone by

6. 6
   name

   Initialism of Attorney General's Office.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ud-s-? Proto-Indo-European *h₂u-s-? Proto-Germanic *uz- Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *gāną Proto-West Germanic *gān Proto-West Germanic *uʀgān Old English āgān Middle English agon English ago From Middle English ago, agon (“passed”), past participle of agon (“to depart, escape, pass”), from Old English āgān (“to go away, pass away, go forth, come to pass”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”), *gāną (“to go”), equivalent to a- + gone, and by surface analysis, a- + go. Cognate with German ergehen (“to come to pass, fare…