AGO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ago mean? 

• AGO (adjective)
  The adjective AGO has 1 sense:

1. gone by; or in the past

  Familiarity information: AGO used as an adjective is very rare.

• AGO (adverb)
  The adverb AGO has 1 sense:

1. in the past

  Familiarity information: AGO used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGO (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gone by; or in the past

Synonyms:

ago; agone

Context example:

'agone' is an archaic word for 'ago'

Similar:

past (earlier than the present time; no longer current)

• AGO (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In the past

Context example:

sixty years ago my grandfather came to the U.S.

 Context examples 

Two days ago Woodley came up to my house with this cable, which showed that Ralph Smith was dead.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Some little time ago I bought a small place—a very small place—within ten miles of Reading.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That was eighteen years ago, an' I've never done a tap of anything else.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Two days ago I received the letter which I now read to you.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had long ago recognised the necessity, and begun to take off my coat, but he stopped me with a warning hand.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I didn't have it in my mind a minute ago, to say a word about myself; but it come up so nat'ral, that I yielded to it afore I was aweer.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"Where's Wolf?" she asked. "He was here a moment ago."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Two years ago he dismasted the Ghost in a gale on Bering Sea, whereupon the present masts were put in, which are stronger and heavier in every way.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There's been blows too, and I reckon your friends has had the best of it; and here they are ashore in the old stockade, as was made years and years ago by Flint.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Yet I fear that the same feelings now exist that made you so miserable a year ago, even perhaps augmented by time.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)