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Earned vs Went - What's the difference?

earned | went |

As verbs the difference between earned and went

is that earned is past tense of earn while went is simple past of go.

As a noun went is

a course; a way, a path; a journey.

earned

English

Alternative forms

*earnt (qualifier)

Verb

(head)
  • (earn)

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    went

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (go)
  • (nonstandard)
  • (archaic) (wend)

    • Derived terms

    * (l), (l) (both archaic)

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A course; a way, a path; a journey.
  • * Chaucer
    • At a turning of a wente .
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.5:
    • But here my wearie teeme, nigh over spent, / Shall breathe it selfe awhile after so long a went .

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