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a⋅go

   [uh-goh]
–adjective
1. gone; gone by; past (usually prec. by a noun): five days ago.
–adverb
2. in past time; in the past: All this happened long ago.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME ago(n), OE āgān, ptp. of āgān to go by, pass, equiv. to ā- a- 3 + gān to go 1
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a·go     (ə-gō')  Pronunciation Key 
adv.   & adj.
  1. Gone by; past: two years ago.
  2. In the past: It happened ages ago.

[Middle English, past participle of agon, to go away, from Old English āgān : ā-, intensive pref. + gān, to go; see ghē- in Indo-European roots.]
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ago 
c.1314, shortened form of O.E. agan, agone "departed, passed away," pp. of an obs. verb formed from a- "away" (perhaps here used as an intensive prefix) + gan "go." Agone remains a dial. variant.

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ago

adjective
1. gone by; or in the past; "two years ago"; "'agone' is an archaic word for 'ago'" 

adverb
1. in the past; "long ago"; "sixty years ago my grandfather came to the U.S." 

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Ago

A*go"\, a. & adv. [OE. ago, agon, p. p. of agon to go away, pass by, AS. [=a]g[=a]n to pass away; [=a]- (cf. Goth. us-, Ger. er-, orig. meaning out) + g[=a]n to go. See Go.] Past; gone by; since; as, ten years ago; gone long ago.

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AGO
American Gastroenterological Organization

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