begone
/biːˈɡɒn/
begone interjection: expressing a desire or a command for someone or something to go away. Also the past participle of bego.
Interjection
- Expressing a desire or a command for someone or something to go away.
- Fairies be gone, and be alwaies away.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First...
- "Begone! move quickly! if quickly you can, you that shine forth into sight in moist times like the worm."1856, Herman Melville, The Lightning Rod Man
Also used as
begone is also the past participle of bego.
begone meaning in Malay and Indonesian
begone in Malay
- expressing a desire or a command for someone or something to go away
- kus, syuh
begone in Indonesian
- expressing a desire or a command for someone or something to go away
- enyahlah
Forms of begone
| alternative form | be gone |
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Origin of begone
Univerbation of be + gone. Compare English beware.
Inflected forms.
Words formed from begone
Words that rhyme with begone
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- foregone
- mon
- qanon
- scone
- swan
- thereupon
- tick on
- wan
- a ton
- chignon
- con
- electron
- got it going on
- jupon
- ron
- soupçon
- thereon
- Toulon
- whereupon
- Yonne
- -hon
- -plon
- agone
- bent on
- build on
- build upon
- c'mon
- catch oneself on
- chron
- cock on
- Comecon
- conn
- cop oneself on
- Gabon
- garçon
- hither and yon
- hon
- macron
- microraion
- mont
- Perpignan
- phon
- pon
- raion
- shone
- sine qua non
- sine quibus non
- Sir John
Questions about begone
- What does begone mean?
- Begone means expressing a desire or a command for someone or something to go away.
- What is begone in Malay?
- Begone in Malay is kus, syuh. See Begone meaning in Malay.
- What part of speech is begone?
- Begone is an interjection.
- How do you pronounce begone?
- Begone is pronounced /biːˈɡɒn/.
Words near begone in the dictionary
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