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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ago \A*go"\, adjective & adverb [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ago
adjective: gone by; or in the past; "two years ago"; "'agone' is an archaic word for 'ago'" [syn: {agone}]
adverb: in the past; "long ago"; "sixty years ago my grandfather came to the U.S."
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "ago": antiquated, antique, back, back when, backward, blown over, by, bygone, bypast, dated, dead, dead and buried, deceased, defunct, departed, elapsed, expired, extinct, finished, forgotten, gone, gone by, gone glimmering, gone-by, has-been, into the past, irrecoverable, lapsed, no more, obsolete, over, passe, passed, passed away, past, reminiscently, retroactively, retrospectively, run out, since, vanished, wound up
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