Went vs Passed - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between went and passed

is that went is simple past of go while passed is past tense of pass.

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

that has passed beyond a certain point (chiefly in set collocations).

(head)

(go)

(nonstandard)

(archaic) (wend)

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

(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 .

(head)

(pass)

(-)

That has passed beyond a certain point (chiefly in set collocations).

That has passed a given qualification or examination; qualified.

* passed pawn