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)
- 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?
- 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.
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc.).
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- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- We went swimming.
- To leave; to move away.
- Please don't go!
Verb
yede
- 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 form | yeed |
|---|---|
| alternative form | yode |
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
Source and license
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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