agoadverb
uk/əˈɡəʊ/us/əˈɡoʊ/A2 back in time from the present:
He left the house over an hour ago.
The dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago.
Long ago/A long time ago, there lived a girl called Cinderella.
More examples
- Electrical goods are almost double the price they were a few years ago.
- "Where's my pen? It was on my desk a minute ago."
- Twelve thousand years ago, our ancestors were primitive savages living in caves.
- We made the booking three months ago.
- It all happened so long ago that it's just a blur to me now.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
In the past
- any more idiom
- anymore
- back in the day idiom
- before
- before the Flood idiom
- clock
- dot
- late
- memory
- no longer idiom
- of late idiom
- of old idiom
- old
- once
- past
- the status quo ante
- the week/month/year before last idiom
- the year dot idiom
- use
- used
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