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verbnountop 1 000 in film dialogue

  • United Kingdom//wɛnt//
  • United States//wɛnt//
  • United States/[wɛnʔ(t̚)]/
  • //wɪnt//

A course; a way, a path; a journey.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of gosimple past of go

  2. 2

    Also a form of gopast participle of go

    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.

    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.

    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. 3

    Also a form of wendarchaicsimple past and past participle of wend

Etymology

Originally the simple past and past participle of wend, but now the past of go due to suppletion. While wend is akin to wind, compare typologically Russian смота́ться (smotátʹsja), сма́тываться (smátyvatʹsja), умота́ть (umotátʹ), ума́тывать (umátyvatʹ) (akin to мота́ть (motátʹ)).

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteA course; a way, a path; a journey.

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

Forms

plural
wents
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).