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AGONE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does agone mean?
• AGONE (adjective)
The adjective AGONE has 1 sense:
1. gone by; or in the past
Familiarity information: AGONE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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past (earlier than the present time; no longer current)
Context examples
Marooned three years agone, he continued, and lived on goats since then, and berries, and oysters.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
For, friend John, hardly had my knife severed the head of each, before the whole body began to melt away and crumble in to its native dust, as though the death that should have come centuries agone had at last assert himself and say at once and loud I am here!
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Maybe you don't count it nothing to have a real college doctor to see you every day—you, John, with your head broke—or you, George Merry, that had the ague shakes upon you not six hours agone, and has your eyes the colour of lemon peel to this same moment on the clock?
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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