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got ahead

got ahead is the simple past of get ahead.

Meaning of get ahead

Verb

get ahead (third-person singular simple present gets ahead, present participle getting ahead, simple past got ahead, past participle (UK) got ahead or (US) gotten ahead)

  1. (informal) To advance toward success.

Questions about got ahead

What is got ahead the simple past of?
Got ahead is the simple past of get ahead.

Words near got ahead in the dictionary

  1. got about
  2. got above oneself
  3. got across
  4. got across the line
  5. got after
  6. got ahead
  7. got ahead of
  8. got ahead of oneself
  9. got ahold of
  10. got ahold of oneself
  11. got along

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Adapted from Wiktionary: got ahead (page history and authors); get ahead (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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