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wente

wente is the archaic spelling of went.

Meaning of went

Noun

went (plural wents)

  1. (obsolete) A course; a way, a path; a journey.
    • But here my wearie teeme, nigh over spent, / Shall breathe it selfe awhile after so long a went.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    gaed, eode, yead, yede, yode, gone, wended

See all 3 meanings of went

Proper noun capitalized: Wente

Wente (plural Wentes)

  1. A surname.

Forms of wente

pluralWentes

Questions about wente

What does wente mean?
Wente means a surname.
What is wente the archaic spelling of?
Wente is the archaic spelling of went.
What part of speech is wente?
Wente is a proper noun.

Words near wente in the dictionary

  1. went with the wind
  2. went without
  3. went without saying
  4. went wrong
  5. Wentbridge
  6. wente
  7. wenten
  8. Wentes
  9. wentest
  10. wenteth
  11. Wentland

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wente (page history and authors); Wente (page history and authors); went (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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