agone

Ago, to poets

Agone is an archaic or poetic word meaning ago: many years agone, long agone in ancient times.

The word appears occasionally in deliberately old-fashioned or literary contexts but has otherwise fallen out of use.

archaic

yore

Time long past

old-fashioned · quaint · old-world · poetic · literary · Spenserian · Shakespearean · King James · medieval · archaism

Opposites
temporal direction

agonehence

For that reason

henceforth · in the future · to come · forthcoming · ahead

temporal proximity

agonenow

The present moment

present · nowadays · currently · presently · at this moment

linguistic register/currency

agoneago

Before the present

since · past · before

Phrases
Family

ago, agonizing, antagonism, antagonize, agonize, agonized, agonizes, agonal, agonizer

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G