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yede

yede is the simple past of go.

Meaning of go

Verb

go (third-person singular simple present goes, present participle going, simple past went or (obsolete) yode or (nonstandard) goed, past participle gone or (nonstandard) went)

  1. (intransitive) To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things such as people or cars, or intangible things such as moods or information.)
    • Why don’t you go with us?
    Synonyms:
    move, fare, tread, draw, drift, wend, cross
  2. (intransitive) To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
    • Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
    Synonyms:
    move, fare, tread, draw, drift, wend, cross
  3. (intransitive) To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc.).
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    Synonyms:
    move, fare, tread, draw, drift, wend, cross
  4. To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
    • We've only gone twenty miles today.
    Synonyms:
    move, fare, tread, draw, drift, wend, cross
  5. (intransitive) To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
    • We went swimming.
    Synonyms:
    move, fare, tread, draw, drift, wend, cross
  6. (intransitive) To leave; to move away.
    • Please don't go!

See all 86 meanings of go

Verb

yede

  1. (literary, obsolete) To go (mistakenly used as a pseudo-archaism by 16th-century poets and their imitators).
    • The whiles on foot was forced for to yeed, / With that blacke Palmer, his moſt truſty guide;1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 232

Forms of yede

alternative formyeed
alternative formyode

Origin of yede

From Middle English yede, from Old English ēode.

Questions about yede

What does yede mean?
Yede means to go (mistakenly used as a pseudo-archaism by 16th-century poets and their imitators).
What is yede the simple past of?
Yede is the simple past of go.
What part of speech is yede?
Yede is a verb.

Words near yede in the dictionary

  1. yedding
  2. yeddings
  3. Yeddo
  4. Yeddo spruce
  5. Yeddo spruces
  6. yede
  7. Yedina
  8. Yedingham
  9. yedlinite
  10. Yedo
  11. yedoma

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yede (page history and authors); go (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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