ago

ago
    adv 1: in the past; "long ago"; "sixty years ago my grandfather
           came to the U.S."
    adj 1: gone by; or in the past; "two years ago"; "`agone' is an
           archaic word for `ago'" [syn: {ago}, {agone}]
    

Ago \A*go"\, a. & adv. [OE. ago, agon, p. p. of agon to go away,
   pass by, AS. [=a]g[=a]n to pass away; [=a]- (cf. Goth. us-,
   Ger. er-, orig. meaning out) + g[=a]n to go. See {Go}.]
   Past; gone by; since; as, ten years ago; gone long ago.
   [1913 Webster]
    

42 Moby Thesaurus words for "ago":
      antiquated, antique, back, back when, backward, blown over, by,
      bygone, bypast, dated, dead, dead and buried, deceased, defunct,
      departed, elapsed, expired, extinct, finished, forgotten, gone,
      gone by, gone glimmering, gone-by, has-been, into the past,
      irrecoverable, lapsed, no more, obsolete, over, passe, passed,
      passed away, past, reminiscently, retroactively, retrospectively,
      run out, since, vanished, wound up