used in expressions of time with the simple past tense to show how far in the past sth happened:
two weeks / months / years ago * The letter came a few days ago. * She was here just a minute ago. * a short / long time ago * How long ago did you buy it? * It was on TV not (so) long ago. * He stopped working some time ago (= quite a long time ago). * They're getting married? It's not that long ago (= it's only a short time ago) that they met!
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for ago is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is ago a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, ago is tagged as adverb.
Does ago appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — ago appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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