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WENT

\wˈɛnt], \wˈɛnt], \w_ˈɛ_n_t]\

Definitions of WENT

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language

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Course; way; path; journey; direction.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

Course; way; path; journey; direction.
imp. & p. p. of Wend; - now obsolete except as the imperfect of go, with which it has no etymological connection. See Go.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

Past tense of the irregular verb go.

1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer

Properly pa.t. of WEND, but now used as pa.t. of GO.

1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
By Daniel Lyons

An obsolete imperfect of wend, now used as imperfect of go.

1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
By James Champlin Fernald

Of Wend and Go.
Way; course; path.

1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
By Nuttall, P.Austin.

Did proceed or go, &c.
Arranged in grammars as the pt. of the verb go, though in origin went has no connection with it.

1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.

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