Definition of ago

"ago" in the adjective sense

1. ago, agone

gone by or in the past

"two years ago"

"`agone' is an archaic word for `ago'"

"ago" in the adverb sense

1. ago

in the past

"long ago"

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

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Quotations for ago

Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains;
They crown'd him long ago
On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds,
With a diadem of snow. [ Byron ]

'Tis but an hour ago, since it was nine;
And, after one hour more, 'twill be eleven;
And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe.
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot. [ William Shakespeare ]

He that died half a year ago is as dead as Adam. [ Proverb ]

Pylades and Orestes died long ago, and left no successors. [ Proverb ]

Falsehoods which we spurn today were the truths of long ago. [ Whittier ]

Man had perished long ago, had it not been for public spirited persons. [ Proverb ]

The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago.
And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow;
But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood,
And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood.
Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men.
And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland glade and glen. [ Bryant ]

If he had spewed so often as he has lied, he would have brought up his guts long ago. [ Proverb ]

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use. [ Emerson ]

Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished. [ Beaconsfield ]

If the true did not possess an objective value, human curiosity would have died out centuries ago. [ Renan ]

Die two months ago, and not forgotten yet? Then there's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year. [ William Shakespeare ]

A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work today, would have to begin it again tomorrow. [ Colton ]

Had religion been a mere chimaera, it would long ago have been extinct; were it susceptible of a definite formula, that formula would long ago have been discovered. [ Renan ]

Gravity, with all its pretensions, was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it, viz., a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind. [ Sterne ]

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. [ Horace Mann ]

The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense and knowledge than a man was worth; and that with all its pretensions it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it - a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind. [ Sterne ]

It is good for any man to be alone with nature and himself, or with a friend who knows when silence is more sociable than talk, In the wilderness alone, there where nature worships God. It is well to be in places where man is little and God is great, where what he sees all around him has the same look as it had a thousand years ago, and will have the same, in all likelihood, when he has been a thousand years in his grave. It abates and rectifies a man, if he is worth the process. [ Sydney Smith ]

Today it is all of sixty years since I began to smoke the limit. I have never bought cigars with life-belts around them. I early found that those were too expensive for me: I have always bought cheap cigars - reasonably cheap, at any rate. Sixty years ago they cost me four dollars a barrel, but my taste has improved, latterly, and I pay seven, now. Six or seven. Seven, I think. Yes; it's seven. But that includes the barrel. I often have smoking-parties at my house; but the people that come have always just taken the pledge. I wonder why that is? [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

ago in Scrabble®

The word ago is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 4

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters ago:

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ago in Words With Friends™

The word ago is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters ago:

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Words within the letters of ago

2 letter words in ago (2 words)

3 letter words in ago (1 word)

ago + 1 blank (7 words)

Words containing the sequence ago

Words with ago in them (409 words)

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Words that end with ago (5 words)

Word Growth involving ago

Shorter words in ago

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go

Longer words containing ago

acridophagous

adephagous

aerophagous

agog agogic agogics

agog agogic demagogic demagogical

agog agogic hypnagogic

agog agogic pedagogic pedagogical pedagogically

agog cholagogue cholagogues

agog demagog demagogic demagogical

agog demagog demagogism demagogisms

agog demagog demagogs

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agog demagog demagogue demagoguery

agog demagog demagogue demagogues

agog demagog demagoguism demagoguisms

agog demagog demagogy

agog esophagogastric

agog esophagogastroduodenoscopies

agog esophagogastroduodenoscopy

agog esophagogastroscopic

agog esophagogastroscopies

agog esophagogastroscopy

agog esophagogastrostomies

agog esophagogastrostomy

agog haemagogue haemagogues

agog pedagogism pedagogisms

agog pedagogue pedagogueries

agog pedagogue pedagoguery

agog pedagogue pedagogues

agog pedagoguish pedagoguishness

agog pedagoguism pedagoguisms

agog pedagogy

agog phlegmagogue phlegmagogues

agog synagogue synagogues

agonies

agonise agonised antagonised unantagonised

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agonise antagonise antagonised unantagonised

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agonising agonisingly

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agonist agonists protagonists

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agonist antagonist antagonistic unantagonistic

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agonist antagonist archantagonist archantagonists

agonist protagonist protagonists

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agonize agonized antagonized unantagonized

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agonize agonizer antagonizer antagonizers

agonize agonizes antagonizes reantagonizes

agonize antagonize antagonized reantagonized

agonize antagonize antagonized unantagonized

agonize antagonize antagonizer antagonizers

agonize antagonize antagonizes reantagonizes

agonize antagonize reantagonize reantagonized

agonize antagonize reantagonize reantagonizes

agonize overagonize

agonizing agonizingly unantagonizingly

agonizing antagonizing reantagonizing

agonizing antagonizing unantagonizing unantagonizingly

agony antagony antagonym antagonymic

agony antagony antagonym antagonyms

agora agoraphobe agoraphobes

agora agoraphobia agoraphobiac agoraphobiacs

agora agoraphobia agoraphobias

agora agoraphobic agoraphobics

agouti agoutis

antagonisable unantagonisable

antagonisation antagonisations

antagonizable unantagonizable unantagonizables

antagonization antagonizations

anthropophagous anthropophagously

anurophagous

aragonite aragonites

aragonite paragonite

araneophagous

archipelago archipelagos

bacteriophagous

bibliophagous

bryophagous

ceratophagous

chiliagon chiliagonal

chiliagon chiliagons

cinemagoer cinemagoers

coccidophagous

coliphagous

coprophagous allocoprophagous

coprophagous autocoprophagous

creophagous

cytophagous

decagon decagonal decagonally

decagon decagonal dodecagonal

decagon decagonal hendecagonal

decagon decagons hendecagons

decagon decagons quindecagons

decagon hendecagon hendecagonal

decagon hendecagon hendecagons

decagon quindecagon quindecagons

dermatophagous

detritophagous

diagometer diagometers

diagonal brachydiagonal brachydiagonals

diagonal diagonalisable

diagonal diagonalisation diagonalisations

diagonal diagonalise diagonalised

diagonal diagonalise diagonalises

diagonal diagonalising

diagonal diagonalities

diagonal diagonality

diagonal diagonalizable

diagonal diagonalization diagonalizations

diagonal diagonalize diagonalized

diagonal diagonalize diagonalizes

diagonal diagonalizing

diagonal diagonally

diagonal diagonals brachydiagonals

diagonal orthodiagonal

diagonal subdiagonal

dragon dragonfish dragonfishes

dragon dragonflies

dragon dragonfly

dragon dragonlike

dragon dragons firedragons

dragon dragons seadragons

dragon dragons snapdragons

dragon dragonwort dragonworts

dragon firedragon firedragons

dragon seadragon seadragons

dragon snapdragon snapdragons

dragoon dragooned

dragoon dragooning

dragoon dragoons

esophagojejunostomies

esophagojejunostomy

esophagoscope esophagoscopes oesophagoscopes

esophagoscope oesophagoscope oesophagoscopes

esophagoscopies oesophagoscopies

esophagoscopy oesophagoscopy

esophagospasm esophagospasms oesophagospasms

esophagospasm oesophagospasm oesophagospasms

esophagostenoses oesophagostenoses

esophagostenosis oesophagostenosis

esophagostomies oesophagostomies

esophagostomy oesophagostomy

esophagotome esophagotomes oesophagotomes

esophagotome oesophagotome oesophagotomes

esophagotomies oesophagotomies

esophagotomy oesophagotomy

esophagotracheal oesophagotracheal

exophagous

extragonadal extragonadals

geophagous

glucagon glucagonoma glucagonomas

glucagon glucagons

haematophagous

haemophagous

helminthophagous

hemophagous

heptagon heptagonal

heptagon heptagons

heterophagous

hexagon hexagonal dihexagonal

hexagon hexagonal hexagonally

hexagon hexagons

hippophagous

imago imagoes

imago imagos

kabaragoya kabaragoyas

keratophagous

lagomorph lagomorphic

lagomorph lagomorphous

lagomorph lagomorphs

lagoon lagoonal

lagoon lagoons

lagophthalmia

lagophthalmic

lagophthalmos

lagophthalmus

lepidophagous

lignophagous

lumbago plumbago plumbagos

mortgagor mortgagors

necrophagous entomonecrophagous

nonagon nonagonal

nonagon nonagons

octagon octagonal octagonally

octagon octagons

oligophagous

omophagous entomophagous

oophagous zoophagous

operagoer operagoers

ophiophagous

osteophagous

pagoda pagodalike

pagoda pagodane pagodanes

pagoda pagodas

pagophobe pagophobes

pagophobia

pagophobic pagophobics

pantophagous

paragon paragonimiasis

paragon paragonite

paragon paragons

pentagon pentagonal pentagonally

pentagon pentagonal pentagonals

pentagon pentagonohedra

pentagon pentagonohedric

pentagon pentagonohedron pentagonohedronal

pentagon pentagonohedron pentagonohedrons

pentagon pentagons

phagocyte haemophagocyte haemophagocytes

phagocyte hemophagocyte hemophagocytes

phagocyte macrophagocyte macrophagocytes

phagocyte microphagocyte microphagocytes

phagocyte phagocytes haemophagocytes

phagocyte phagocytes hemophagocytes

phagocyte phagocytes macrophagocytes

phagocyte phagocytes microphagocytes

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phagocytic hemophagocytic hemophagocytical hemophagocytically

phagocytic macrophagocytic

phagocytic microphagocytic

phagocytic nonphagocytic

phagocytic phagocytical haemophagocytical haemophagocytically

phagocytic phagocytical hemophagocytical hemophagocytically

phagocytic phagocytical phagocytically haemophagocytically

phagocytic phagocytical phagocytically hemophagocytically

phagocytise phagocytised

phagocytise phagocytises

phagocytising

phagocytism

phagocytize phagocytized

phagocytize phagocytizes

phagocytizing

phagocytoblast phagocytoblastic

phagocytoblast phagocytoblasts

phagocytolysis

phagocytolytic

phagocytose phagocytosed

phagocytose phagocytoses haemophagocytoses

phagocytose phagocytoses hemophagocytoses

phagocytosing

phagocytosis haemophagocytosis

phagocytosis hemophagocytosis

phagocytotic

phagodynamometer phagodynamometers

phagolyses

phagolysis

phagolytic phagolytically

phagomania phagomaniac phagomaniacs

phagomania phagomanias

phagophobe phagophobes

phagophobia phagophobias

phagophobic phagophobics

phagosome phagosomes

phagotroph phagotrophic phagotrophically

phagotroph phagotrophy

phantasmagoria

phantasmagoric phantasmagorical phantasmagorically

phytophagous

polyphagous

pythagorean

ragout ragouts

rhagonoid

saprophagous

scatophagous

scolecophagous

seagoer seagoers

seagoing

spermagonia

spermagonium

tarragon tarragons

tetragon tetragonal ditetragonal

tetragon tetragons

toxicophagous

vagotomies

vagotomy

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wagon haywagon haywagons

wagon icewagon icewagons

wagon milkwagon milkwagons

wagon wagonful wagonfuls

wagon wagonless

wagon wagonload wagonloads

wagon wagonmaker wagonmakers

wagon wagonmaking

wagon wagons bandwagons

wagon wagons haywagons

wagon wagons icewagons

wagon wagons milkwagons

xerophagous

xylophagous

zeagonite