Went vs Wen - What's the difference?
went | wen |
(go)
(nonstandard)
(archaic) (wend)
(obsolete) A course; a way, a path; a journey.
* Chaucer
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.5:
A cyst on the skin.
* 1854 , (Henry David Thoreau), (Walden) ,
* 1973 , (Thomas Pynchon), Gravity's Rainbow :
* 1996 , (David Foster Wallace), Infinite Jest , Abacus 2013, p. 4:
As nouns the difference between went and wen
is that went is a course; a way, a path; a journey while wen is a cyst on the skin.As a verb went
is simple past of go.As a proper noun Wen is
{{surname|common|from=Chinese}} of east Asian derivation.went
English
Verb
(head)Derived terms
* (l), (l) (both archaic)Statistics
*Noun
(en noun)- At a turning of a wente .
- But here my wearie teeme, nigh over spent, / Shall breathe it selfe awhile after so long a went .
wen
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Walden:
- When I have met an immigrant tottering under a bundle which contained his all--looking like an enormous wen which had grown out of the nape of his neck--I have pitied him, not because that was his all, but because he had all that to carry.
- Creeps, foreigners with tinted, oily skin, wens , sties, cysts, wheezes, bad teeth, limps, staring or—worse—with Strange Faraway Smiles.
- I am debating whether to risk scratching the right side of my jaw, where there is a wen .