Usually means: Refers to time before now.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. ago: Merriam-Webster
  2. ago: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ago: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ago: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ago: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ago, ago: Wordnik
  7. ago: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ago: Wiktionary
  9. ago: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ago: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ago: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. AGO: Dictionary.com
  13. ago: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ago: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. AGO, Ago: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ago: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ago: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ago: Rhymezone
  19. ago, ago: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ago: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. AGO: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. ago: FreeDictionary.org
  23. ago: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. ago: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. ago: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. ago: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  27. ago: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ago: Cooking Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AGO: Acronym Finder
  2. AGO: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. ago: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ago: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AGO: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See agoing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  Before the present time
adjective:  (archaic or dialectal) Gone; gone by; gone away; passed; passed away.
adjective:  (archaic or dialectal) Nearly gone; dead. (used in Devonshire at the turn of the 19th century)
noun:  Initialism of Attorney General's Office.

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