go
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: gō
ipa: /ɡoʊ/
note: Black Country
ipa: /ɡu/
ipa: /ɡæn/
ipa: /ɡəʊ/
ipa: /ɡoʊ/
ipa: [ɡoː]
ipa: [ɡəʉ]
ipa: [ɡɐʉ]
homophone: geaux
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: goes
form: going
form: went
form: yode
form: gone
form: went
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: go
form: go
form: went
form: yode
form: go
form: goest
form: went
form: yode
form: wentest
form: goes
form: goeth
form: went
form: yode
form: go
form: went
form: yode
form: go
form: went
form: yode
form: go
form: -
form: going
form: goand
form: gone
form: yode
form: gan
Etymology: From Middle English gon, goon, from Old English gān (“to go”), from Proto-West Germanic *gān, from Proto-Germanic *gāną (“to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave”).
The inherited past tense form yode (compare Old English ēode) was replaced through suppletion in the 15th century by went, from Old English wendan (“to go, depart, wend”).
cognates and related terms
Cognate with Scots gae, gan, gang, ging, gyang (“to go”), Yola go, goe, goeth, gow (“to go”), West Frisian gean (“to go”), Alemannic German gaa, go (“to go, walk, step”), Bavarian geh (“to go”), Cimbrian ghéenan, gian (“to go”), Dutch gaan (“to go”), Dutch Low Saxon gan, gaon (“to go”), German gehen (“to go”), German Low German gahn (“to go”), Limburgish gaon, goëne (“to go”), Luxembourgish goen (“to go”), Yiddish גיין (geyn, “to go, walk”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish gå (“to go, walk”), Crimean Gothic geen (“to go”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌰𐌽 (gaggan, “to go”). Compare also Albanian ngah (“to run, drive, go”), Ancient Greek κιχάνω (kikhánō, “to meet with, arrive at”), Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬰𐬁𐬨𐬌 (zazāmi), Sanskrit जहाति (jáhāti).
Senses: examples: text: Why don’t you go with us?
text: This train goes through Cincinnati on its way to Chicago.
text: Chris, where are you going?
text: There's no public transit where I'm going.
text: Wow, look at him go!
text: The rumour went all around town.
text: She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: […] there was a general sense of panic going through the house; […]
ref: 2005, David Neilson, Standstill, →ISBN, page 159:
text: Telegrams to London went by wire to Halifax, Nova Scotia, thence by steam mail packet to Liverpool, […]
ref: 2013, Mike Vouri, The Pig War: Standoff at Griffin Bay, →ISBN, page 177:
text: I have to go now.
ref: 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
synonyms: move
fare
tread
draw
drift
wend
cross
antonyms: freeze
halt
remain
stand still
stay
stop
glosses: To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:
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.)
examples: text: 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.
text: Fans want to see the Twelfth Doctor go to the 51st century to visit River in the library.
text: You have to go all the way back to Herbert Hoover to see a performance in the Standard & Poors 500 equal to what we are experiencing right now.
ref: 2002 September 18, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 107th Congress, second session; Senate, page 17033:
text: "I don't know how to tell you this, Aubrey, but you can't go back to 1938 […] the program won't accept any date that I input before 1941." […] "Well, I'll go to 1941, then."
ref: 2010, Charlotte Sadler, Time for One More Dance, →ISBN, page 162:
synonyms: move
fare
tread
draw
drift
wend
cross
antonyms: freeze
halt
remain
stand still
stay
stop
glosses: To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:
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.)
examples: text: For the best definitions, go to wiktionary.org
text: To access Office-related TechNet resources, go to www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/office.
ref: 2009, David J. Clark, The Unofficial Guide to Microsoft Office Word 2007, →ISBN, page 536:
text: Go to your earliest memory and to your favorite one, then to one that's difficult to consider.
ref: 2009, Lisa W. Coyne, Amy R. Murrell, The Joy of Parenting, →ISBN:
text: Go to drive C: through My Computer (or Computer in Windows 7 and Vista) and double-click the c:\data folder.
ref: 2012, Glen E. Clarke, Edward Tetz, CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One For Dummies, →ISBN, page 280:
synonyms: move
fare
tread
draw
drift
wend
cross
antonyms: freeze
halt
remain
stand still
stay
stop
glosses: To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:
To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
examples: text: We've only gone twenty miles today.
text: This car can go circles around that one.
text: The fight went the distance and was decided on points.
text: The car went a short distance, then halted. There was something wrong with the carburetor.
ref: 2003, Harrison E. Salisbury, The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad, →ISBN, page 307:
synonyms: move
fare
tread
draw
drift
wend
cross
antonyms: freeze
halt
remain
stand still
stay
stop
glosses: To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:
To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
examples: text: We went swimming.
text: Let's go shopping.
text: Please go and get me some envelopes.
text: ’[R]e you another agoin’ on this crazy voyage?
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 2:
synonyms: move
fare
tread
draw
drift
wend
cross
antonyms: freeze
halt
remain
stand still
stay
stop
glosses: To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:
To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
examples: text: Please don't go!
text: I really must be going.
text: Workmen were coming and going at all hours of the night.
text: And following Dee, which Britons long ygone / Did call diuine, that doth by Cheſter tend; […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 39, page 167:
text: Like her I go; I cannot stay;
⁠I leave this mortal ark behind,
A weight of nerves without a mind,
And leave the cliffs, and haste away […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: move
fare
tread
draw
drift
wend
cross
depart
leave
exit
go away
go out
antonyms: freeze
halt
remain
stand still
stay
stop
come
arrive
approach
glosses: To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:
To leave; to move away.
examples: text: Let's go this way for a while.
text: She was going that way anyway, so she offered to show him where it was.
text: I'm repeating it: I wish that you would go this path up to its end, that you shall find salvation!
ref: 1951?, Gunther Olesch et al., Siddhartha, translation of original by Hermann Hesse:
synonyms: move
fare
tread
draw
drift
wend
cross
antonyms: freeze
halt
remain
stand still
stay
stop
glosses: To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:
To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
examples: text: We went the full length of the promenade before we found a place to sit down.
text: His life story goes the gamut, from poverty-stricken upbringing to colossal wealth.
synonyms: move
fare
tread
draw
drift
wend
cross
antonyms: freeze
halt
remain
stand still
stay
stop
glosses: To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:
To travel or pass along.
examples: text: ‘As for that,’ seyde Sir Trystram, ‘I may chose othir to ryde othir to go.’
ref: 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book XII:
text: Master Piercie our new President, was so sicke hee could neither goe nor stand.
ref: 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, published 1988, page 129:
text: Other brunts I also look for; but this I have resolved on, to wit, to run when I can, to go when I cannot run, and to creep when I cannot go.
ref: 1684, John Bunyan, “Battle with Giant Slay-good”, in The Pilgrim's Progress, Part II Section 3:
synonyms: move
fare
tread
draw
drift
wend
cross
antonyms: freeze
halt
remain
stand still
stay
stop
glosses: To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:
To walk; to travel on one's feet.
examples: text: The engine just won't go anymore.
text: Don't put your hand inside while the motor's going!
text: 'Although the lemon is now black and shrivelled the motor is still going strong. If I can make my small motor run for month after month on a single lemon, just imagine how much "juice" there must be in a whole sackful', Mr Ashill said.
ref: 1997, New Scientist, volume 154, page 105:
text: […] though his publisher swears black and blue that Kelder is still going strong and still remains an intensely private person.
ref: 2008, Michael Buckley, Shangri-La: A Practical Guide to the Himalayan Dream, →ISBN, page 146:
synonyms: function
work
operate
run
glosses: To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
raw_tags: of a machine
examples: text: You've got thirty seconds to solve the anagram, starting now. Go!
text: At leaſt, I'm ſure I can fiſh it out of her. She's the very Sluce to her Lady's Secrets;—'Tis but ſetting her Mill agoing, and I can drein her of 'em all.
ref: 1693, Will[iam] Congreve, The Old Batchelour, a Comedy. […], London: […] Peter Buck, […], →OCLC, Act V, scene i, page 45:
text: Be listening for my voice. Go when you hear my voice say go.
ref: 2001 June 18, a prophecy, quoted in Mary and the Unity of the Church →ISBN, page 49
glosses: To start; to begin (an action or process).
examples: text: It’s your turn; go.
text: I've got all vowels. I don't think I can go.
synonyms: move
make one's move
take one’s turn
glosses: To take a turn, especially in a game.
examples: text: I go to school at the schoolhouse.
text: She went to Yale.
text: They only go to church on Christmas.
glosses: To attend.
examples: text: That went well.
text: "How are things going?" "Not bad, thanks."
text: How goes the night, boy?
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: I think, as the world goes, he was a good sort of man enough.
ref: 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations:
text: Whether the cause goes for me or against me, you must pay me the reward.
ref: 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726, →OCLC:
text: I certainly won't mention it to Ben, and will go carefully if he mentions it to me.
ref: 1986, The Opera Quarterly, volume 4, numbers 3-4, page 24:
glosses: To proceed:
To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
examples: text: Why'd you have to go and do that?
text: Why'd you have to go do that?
text: He just went and punched the guy.
text: And even if she had believed the story about a John Smith, she might go telling everyone in town about what she'd seen.
ref: 2011, Debra Glass, Scarlet Widow, →ISBN, page 96:
glosses: To proceed:
To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
qualifier: sometimes linked by and
raw_tags: with another verb
examples: text: The fence goes the length of the boundary.
text: A shady promenade went the length of the street and the entrance to the hotel was a few steps back in the darkness, away from the glaring sunshine.
ref: 2010, Luke Dixon, Khartoum, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: To extend along.
examples: text: This property goes all the way to the state line.
text: The working week goes from Monday to Friday.
text: I think those figures start from 1932 and go to 1941, inclusive, […]
ref: 1946, Hearings Before the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, Congress of the United States, Seventy-ninth Congress, First Session, page 2459:
text: Even though they can give a basic fact such as 4×4, I don't know that this knowledge goes very deep for them.
ref: 2007, Math for All: Differentiating instruction, grades K-2, →ISBN, page 38:
glosses: To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
examples: text: Does this road go to Fort Smith?
text: “Where does this door go?” Bev asked as she pointed to a door painted a darker green than the powder green color of the carpet. Janet answered. “That door goes to the back yard.”
ref: 2013, Without Delusion, →ISBN, page 191:
glosses: To lead (to a place); to give access (to).
examples: text: You'll go blind.
text: The milk went bad.
text: I went crazy.
text: After failing as a criminal, he decided to go straight.
text: The video clip went viral.
text: Don't tell my Mum: she'll go ballistic.
text: The local shop wants to go digital, and eventually go global.
text: Male colleges going coed
ref: 1984 February 4, Vincent F. Luti, “Mouths Open, Only Singing”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 5:
text: Referring to the American radicals who went Hollywood in the 1930s, Abraham Polonsky argues that "you can't possibly explain the Hollywood communists away […]"
ref: 2001, Saverio Giovacchini, Hollywood Modernism: Film and Politics, →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: To become, move to or come to (a state, position, situation)
To become. (The adjective that follows often, but not always, describes a negative state.)
synonyms: become
turn
grow
get
wax
examples: text: If we can win on Saturday, we'll go top of the league.
text: They went level with their rivals.
glosses: To become, move to or come to (a state, position, situation)
To move to (a position or state).
examples: text: They went into debt.
text: She goes to sleep around 10 o'clock.
glosses: To become, move to or come to (a state, position, situation)
To come (to a certain condition or state).
examples: text: The traffic light went straight from green to red.
glosses: To change (from one value to another).
examples: text: There is scarcely a business man who is not occasionally asked to go bail for somebody.
ref: 1912, The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Stationer, volume 36, page 17:
text: Most welfare workers are not allowed to go surety for clients.
ref: 2010, Jane Sanders, Youth Justice: Your Guide to Cops and Courts, →ISBN:
glosses: To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
examples: text: I don't want my children to go hungry.
text: We went barefoot in the summer.
glosses: To continuously or habitually be in a state.
examples: text: The decision went the way we expected.
text: When Wharton had to relinquish his seat in Buckinghamshire on his elevation to the peerage in 1696, he was unable to replace himself with a suitable man, and the by-election went in favour of a local Tory, Lord Cheyne.
ref: 2014, Tim Harris, Politics Under the Later Stuarts, →ISBN, page 195:
glosses: To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
examples: text: Well, that goes to show you.
text: These experiences go to make us stronger.
glosses: To tend (toward a result)
examples: text: qualities that go to make a lady / lip-reader / sharpshooter
text: What can we know of any substance or existence, but as made up of all the qualities that go to its composition: extension, solidity, form, colour; take these away, and you know nothing.
ref: 1839, A Challenge to Phrenologists; Or, Phrenology Tested, page 155:
text: The avoirdupois pound is one of 7,000 grains, and go to the pound.
ref: 1907, Patrick Doyle, Indian Engineering, volume 41, page 181:
glosses: To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
examples: text: The time went slowly.
text: But the days went and went, and she never came; and then I thought I would come here where you were.
ref: 1850, “Sketches of New England Character”, in Holden's Dollar Magazine, volumes 5-6, page 731:
text: The rest of the morning went quickly and before Su knew it Jean was knocking on the door […]
ref: 2008, Sue Raymond, Hidden Secrets, →ISBN, page 357:
glosses: To pass, to be used up:
To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
raw_tags: of time
examples: text: After three days, my headache finally went.
glosses: To pass, to be used up:
To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
synonyms: disappear
vanish
go away
end
dissipate
antonyms: remain
stay
hold
examples: text: His money went on drink.
text: All I have is a sleeping bag right now. All my money goes to keep up the cars.
ref: 2011, Ross Macdonald, Black Money, →ISBN, page 29:
glosses: To pass, to be used up:
To be spent or used up.
examples: text: I want to go in my sleep.
text: By Saint George, he's gone! / That spear wound hath our master sped.
ref: 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “(please specify the introduction or canto number, or chapter name)”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC:
text: After two years of swaddled invalidism, Mrs. Morton emitted a final gassy sigh and died, whereas twenty years later Elihu was to go “just like that,” as the neighbors said, from a stroke.
ref: 1978, David Galloway, A Family Album, London: John Calder, →ISBN, page 36:
text: "Your father's gone." "Okay, okay, the Gaffer's kicked off. What happened?"
ref: 1997, John Wheatcroft, The Education of Malcolm Palmer, →ISBN, page 85:
synonyms: word: assume room temperature
word: auger in
word: be called home
word: be gathered to one's fathers
word: be no more
word: be with Jesus
word: be with the Lord
word: bite the big one
word: bite the biscuit
word: bite the dust
word: buy the farm
word: buy it
word: cark it
word: cash in
word: cash in one's chips
word: check out
word: close one's eyes for the last time
word: code
word: conk out
word: croak
word: cross over
word: cross rainbow bridge
word: cross the Great Divide
word: cross the Styx
word: decease
word: decompose
word: dematerialize
word: depart
word: disincarnate
word: draw one's last breath
word: drop off the hooks
word: exit
word: expire
word: flatline
word: forfare
word: get to be like the one
word: give one's all
word: give up the ghost
word: go for a burton
word: go gentle into that good night
word: go out
word: go over to the majority
word: go the way of all flesh
word: go the way of the dinosaurs
word: go the way of the dodo
word: go the way of the dodo bird
word: go to glory
word: go to one's reward
word: go west
word: hand in one's checks
word: hand in one's dinner pail
word: hop the twig
word: join the choir invisible
word: keel over
word: kick the bucket
word: kick off
word: knock off
word: liquidate
word: lose my life for Jesus Christ
word: lose the number of one's mess
word: meet one's doom
word: meet one's end
word: meet one's maker
word: pass
word: pass away
word: pass in one's checks
word: pass in one's marble
word: pass on
word: pass over
word: pass the river
word: pay nature's debt
word: pay the debt of nature
word: peg out
word: perish
word: pop off
word: pop one's clogs
word: shuffle off this mortal coil
word: sink
word: sleep with one's fathers
word: slip away
word: snuff it
word: succumb
word: take a dirt nap
word: turn up one's toes
word: yield up the ghost
glosses: To die.
examples: text: The third wicket went just before lunch.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To be lost or out:
To be lost.
raw_tags: of a wicket
examples: text: Smith bowls ... Jones hits it straight up in the air ... and ... caught! Jones has gone!
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To be lost or out:
To be out.
raw_tags: of a batsman
examples: text: Careful! It looks as if that ceiling could go at any moment!
text: I wonder if I hopped up and down, would the bridge go?
ref: 1998, Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, →ISBN, page 157:
text: Sober-eyed commentators safe in their television studios interviewed engineers about the chances that the rest of the dam could go.
ref: 2011, Shaunti Feldhahn, The Lights of Tenth Street, →ISBN:
text: Jackson shook his head. "The contractor said those panes could go at any moment." / "Right. Just like the wiring could go at any moment, and the roof could go at any moment."
ref: 2012, Carolyn Keene, Mardi Gras Masquerade, →ISBN, page 38:
glosses: To break down or apart:
To collapse or give way, to break apart.
synonyms: crumble
collapse
disintegrate
give way
examples: text: My mind is going.
text: She's 83; her eyesight is starting to go.
glosses: To break down or apart:
To break down or decay.
examples: text: The car went for five thousand dollars.
text: The store is closing down so everything must go.
glosses: To be sold.
examples: text: This chair has got to go.
text: All this old rubbish can go.
text: Preservation of two railway routes between Belfast and Derry could no longer be justified and one of them must go.
ref: 1956 May, “Transport in Ulster”, in Railway Magazine, page 280:
glosses: To be discarded or disposed of.
examples: text: The property shall go to my wife.
text: The award went to Steven Spielberg.
text: If my money goes to education, I want a report card.
ref: 2007, David Bouchier, The Song of Suburbia: Scenes from Suburban Life, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
examples: text: How long can you go without water?
text: We've gone without your help for a while now.
text: I've gone ten days now without a cigarette.
text: Can you two go twenty minutes without arguing?!
glosses: To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
examples: text: They've gone one for three in this series.
text: The team is going five in a row.
text: Against the Big Green, Princeton went the entire first and third quarters without gaining a first down, […]
ref: 1983, Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 84, page 48:
text: England have now gone four games without a win at Wembley, their longest sequence without a victory in 30 years, and still have much work to do to reach Euro 2012 as they prepare for a testing trip to face Bulgaria in Sofia in September.
ref: 2011 June 4, Phil McNulty, “England 2-2 Switzerland”, in BBC:
text: 'Surely one cannot go for long in this world to-day without at least a thought for St Simon Stylites?'
ref: 2011, H. R. F. Keating, Zen there was Murder →ISBN
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To have a certain record.
examples: text: Whatever the boss says goes, do you understand?
glosses: To be authoritative, accepted, or valid:
Of an opinion or instruction, to have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
examples: text: Anything goes around here.
text: The money which remains should go according to its true value.
ref: 1691, [John Locke], Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money. […], London: […] Awnsham and John Churchill, […], published 1692, →OCLC:
glosses: To be authoritative, accepted, or valid:
To be accepted.
examples: text: The baked beans can go on this shelf, and the same goes for all these other tins.
text: [To job interviews, wear] muted colors. No pink or paisley (that goes for you too, guys!) […]
ref: 2014, Shayna Lance King, If You'd Read This Book: You'd Be Employed By Now, →ISBN, page 22:
glosses: To be authoritative, accepted, or valid:
To be valid or applicable.
examples: text: I go, "As if!" And she was all like, "Whatever!"
text: As soon as I did it, I went "that was stupid."
glosses: To say (something), to make a sound:
To say (something, aloud or to oneself).
examples: text: Cats go "meow". Motorcycles go "vroom".
glosses: To say (something), to make a sound:
To make the (specified) sound.
examples: text: I woke up just before the clock went.
text: At 4pm, the phone went. It was The Sun: 'We hear your daughter's been expelled for cheating at her school exams[…]' / / She'd made a remark to a friend at the end of the German exam and had been pulled up for talking. / / As they left the exam room, she muttered that the teacher was a 'twat'. He heard and flipped—a pretty stupid thing to do, knowing the kids were tired and tense after exams. Instead of dropping it, the teacher complained to the Head and Deb was carpeted.
ref: 1992 June 24, Edwina Currie, Diary:
glosses: To say (something), to make a sound:
To sound; to make a noise.
examples: text: The tune goes like this.
text: As the story goes, he got the idea for the song while sitting in traffic.
glosses: To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
examples: text: The nylon gears kept breaking, so we went to stainless steel.
glosses: To resort (to).
examples: text: I'm going to join a sports team.
text: I wish you'd go and get a job.
text: He went to pick it up, but it rolled out of reach.
text: He's going to leave town tomorrow.
text: Seeing himself confronted by so many, like a resolute orator, he went not to denial, but to justify his cruel falsehood.
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
text: Now I didn't go to make that mistake about the record-breaking drought of more than fifty years ago, but, boy, am I glad I made it. Otherwise, I wouldn't have heard from Joe Almand.
ref: 1990, Celestine Sibley, Tokens of myself, →ISBN, page 73:
glosses: To apply or subject oneself to:
To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
examples: text: You didn't have to go to such trouble.
text: I never thought he'd go so far as to call you.
text: She went to great expense to help them win.
glosses: To apply or subject oneself to:
To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
examples: text: I've gone over this a hundred times.
text: Let's not go into that right now.
glosses: To apply or subject oneself to:
To work (through or over), especially mentally.
examples: text: Do you think the sofa will go through the door?
text: The belt just barely went around his waist.
glosses: To fit (in a place, or together with something):
To fit.
synonyms: fit
pass
stretch
come
make it
raw_tags: followed by a preposition
examples: text: This shade of red doesn't go with the drapes.
text: White wine goes better with fish than red wine.
glosses: To fit (in a place, or together with something):
To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
synonyms: harmonize
antonyms: clash
examples: text: My shirts go on this side of the wardrobe.
text: This piece of the jigsaw goes on the other side.
glosses: To fit (in a place, or together with something):
To belong (somewhere).
synonyms: belong
have a place
examples: text: He'd like to pot the pink, but I don't think it will go. The green's in the way.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
glosses: To fit (in a place, or together with something):
Of a ball, to be capable of being potted, not having its path to the pocket obstructed by other balls.
examples: text: How long have they been going together?
text: He's been going with her for two weeks.
synonyms: word: go out
alt: with
word: date
word: see
glosses: To date.
examples: text: You can date black, you can do white, on a slow night maybe even go for an Asian boy, but most likely you'll go Latino unless the aforementioned guys speak a little Spanish […]
ref: 2005, Frederick Smith, Down For Whatever, Kensington Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 197:
text: I felt that was an insult to John Lennon, but I married her anyway. Thinking back, I should have gone Asian.
ref: 2010 November 9, Greg Fitzsimmons, Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons: Tales of Redemption from an Irish Mailbox, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 166:
text: “I could give a flying fuck less if Ronnie dated a Martian, but the fact of the matter is that it would not be cool for him to go Asian. He knows it and I know it.” Ronnie did not respond at all. Shit, he wanted to date Tai in the worst way, […]
ref: 2010, Marty Nazzaro, The City of Presidents, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 131:
text: In fact, Hispanics and Asians are riding the wave—26 percent of Latino and 31 percent of Asian newlywed couples were mixed race or ethnicity. And, when marrying out, we went white—four in ten Latinos married a white spouse, […]
ref: 2011 May 3, Sandra Guzmán, The New Latina’s Bible: The Modern Latina’s Guide to Love, Spirituality, Family, and La Vida, Basic Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:
text: She's gone black now. That's a big change for you, Cassie. So tell me, is it true what they say about black men?
ref: 2012 March 1, Sylvia Lett, All Night Lover, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 182:
text: “She went black,” he remembers. “She only started dating black guys. Or foreigners.”
ref: 2017 May 16, Judith A. Yates, "She Is Evil!": Madness and Murder in Memphis, WildBlue Press, →ISBN, →OCLC:
text: “Your twin is dating a white man,” Lashana interjected. […] “[…]Now, let me get this straight, Eb, you've gone white?”
ref: 2018 November 27, M.J. Kane, A Heart Not Easily Broken (Butterfly Memoirs), Written Musings, →ISBN:
text: She's hot. Hey, how are your parents about it all? I mean, you're breaking two taboos there—you're dating women, and you've gone white.
ref: 2022 January 4, Radhika Sanghani, 30 Things I Love About Myself, Penguin, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:
glosses: To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
examples: text: I went at him with a knife.
text: You wanna go, little man?
ref: 2002, “Objects in Space”, in Firefly, Jayne Cobb (actor):
glosses: To attack:
To fight or attack.
examples: text: You've shown me his weak points, and I'll go him whether you stick by me or not.
ref: 1900, Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell's Tricks: Or True Friends and False:
glosses: To attack:
To fight.
examples: text: As big as me. Strong, too. I was itching to go him, And he had clouted Ernie.
ref: 1964, Robert Close, Love Me Sailor, page 131:
text: Then I′m sure I heard him mutter ‘Why don′t you get fucked,’ under his breath.
It was at that moment that I became a true professional. Instead of going him, I announced the next song.
ref: 2002, James Freud, I am the Voice Left from Drinking, unnumbered page:
text: Tom stepped back, considered the hill, and taking off down it. She was going to go him for blowing that flamin′ whistle in her ear all day.
ref: 2005, Joy Dettman, One Sunday, page 297:
glosses: To attack:
To attack.
examples: text: My cat Fluffy is very timid, as cats go.
text: As far as burgers go, this is one of the best.
text: Booster is not a loud trumpeter as elephants go.
ref: 1975, Private Eye, numbers 340-366, page 9:
text: They are fairly rough and ready as models go, not often driven to the rigor of an authentic scientific law, and never worried about coming out with some revolutionary mathematical language — but models nonetheless, […]
ref: 1982, Fernand Braudel, On History, →ISBN, page 40:
text: She was, as girls go, scrawny and muscular, yet her boyish frame had in the last year betrayed her.
ref: 1991, Katherine Paterson, Lyddie:
glosses: Used to express how some category of things generally is, as a reference for, contrast to, or comparison with, a particular example.
raw_tags: in phrases with 'as'
examples: text: Let's go halves on this.
text: They were to go equal shares in the booty.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
examples: text: Those babies go five tons apiece.
text: This'll go three tons to the acre, or I'll eat my shirt.
ref: 1910, Ray Stannard Baker, Adventures in Friendship, page 182:
glosses: To yield or weigh.
examples: text: That's as high as I can go.
text: We could go two fifty.
text: I'll go a ten-spot.
text: I'll go you a shilling.
text: I'll go him one better.
text: Should you find that they do not "go" at 2/- please reduce the price at your discretion.
ref: ca. 1925, “Letter from Gwendolen Coleridge-Taylor Dashwood to W. E. B. Du Bois”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name) (correspondence):
synonyms: go for
glosses: To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay; to sell for.
examples: text: I could go a beer right about now.
text: 'But I bet you could go a cup of tea? I know I could. Always ready for char.' He looked over my shoulder towards Albert Hicks, who was standing in the doorway. 'Albert, could you rustle up a pot of our best Darjeeling?[…]'
ref: 1996, Jonathan Goodman, The Last Sentence, Chivers North America, →ISBN:
glosses: To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
examples: text: I really need to go.
text: Have you managed to go today, Mrs. Miggins?
text: Clarence was just as surprised to see Richard, and he went—right there in the doorway. I had slept through all this mayhem on the other side of the apartment. By the time I got up, these were all semi-comical memories and the urine had been cleaned up.
ref: 2006, Kevin Blue, Practical Justice: Living Off-Center in a Self-Centered World, →ISBN, page 54:
synonyms: word: break the seal
word: hit the head
word: micturate
word: pass water
word: pee
word: piddle
word: piss
word: slash
word: take a leak
word: take a piss
word: take a whiz
word: urinate
word: void
word: wee
word: wee wee
word: widdle
word: whiz
word: boo-boo
word: cack
word: choke a darkie
word: crap
word: defecate
word: do one's ease
word: ease oneself
word: do a number two
word: do one's easement
word: drite
word: drop a bomb
word: drop a chalupa
word: drop a deuce
word: drop anchor
word: drop the kids off at the pool
word: dung
raw_tags: of animals
word: exrementize
word: feceate
word: have a shit
word: move one's bowels
word: pinch a loaf
word: pinch one off
word: poo
word: pooh
word: poop
word: sharn
word: shart
word: shiss
word: shit
word: shite
word: stool
word: take a dump
word: take a shit
word: take a crap
word: take the Browns to the Super Bowl
word: uncoil
word: void one's bowels
glosses: To go to the toilet; to urinate or defecate.
examples: text: Go, girl! You can do it!
glosses: Expressing encouragement or approval.
examples: text: Going pub now :)
ref: 2018 June 17, mya hill, Twitter:
text: Ffs I really want to go pub now
ref: 2021 September 9, __merrycrisis, Reddit:
text: I went shop and the boss man said, "Don't pay me it's fine".
ref: 2018 September 14, “Don't Gas Me” (track 1), in Don't Gas Me, performed by Dizzie Rascal:
text: I’m gonna go shops on Monday arvo.
ref: 2021 October 11, Wilton Public School, Grammar_Focus_Wk3_Y4.pdf:
text: Guys I went McDonalds
ref: 2023 November 25, 𝔹𝕣𝕠𝕨𝕟𝕊𝕦𝕘𝕒𝕣 🌸, Twitter:
text: I had a severe stomach pain, my GP was closed so had to go hospital at 6 am
ref: 2024 September 5, NotSureIfIWanna20, “I was sick yesterday, went hospital in the morning at 6 am and came back at 9am.”, in Reddit:
text: Went pub and got a free beer!
ref: 2024 November 8, bob katya, Twitter:
glosses: Clipping of go to the.
examples: text: You said WHAT about my mom? Do you want to go, bro?
glosses: To fight, usually with the fists.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:go.
glosses: To pass (a specified time) in gestation; to be pregnant.
raw_tags: followed by with
Derived terms: absence makes the heart go yonder
as you go
at a go
atgo
at one go
away-going
bego
carry-go-bring-come
churchgoer
church-going
coming and going
drive a nail where it will go
easy-going
enough to go around
fermented glutinous rice
forego
forgo
forthgo
geaux
get-go
get going
get woke, go broke
git-go
go about
go after
go against
go-ahead
go along
go amiss
go around
go around with
go at
go at it
go away
go back
goback
go back to where you came from
go bad
go bag
go balls up
go begging
go berserk
go-between
go between
go beyond the pale
go bush
go by
go-cart
go cheap
go combo
go-devil
go down
go down on
go down south
go down swinging
go equipped
goer
goey
go face
gofer
go for
go forth
go forth and multiply
go for the gold
go for the jugular vein
go free
go fuck yourself sideways
go great guns
go green
go hard in the paint
go haywire
go in
going away
going away dress
going barrel
going concern
going forward
going home club
going on
going over
going-over
going rate
going-to
go in on
go into
go into detail
go into the long grass
go-itis
go jump off a cliff
go-kart
go like the clappers
go long
good going
good to go
go off
go off on
go off the handle
go off the rez
go on
go on by
go on strike
go on vacation
go out
go out with
go-ped
go pedal
go play in the traffic
go play with yourself
go postal
go rogue
go round
go-round
go-show
go-slow
go soft
go-stop
go straight
go the distance
go the way of the dodo
go through the attitudes
go through with
got it going on
go-to
go to earth
go to ground
go to heck
go-to-market
go to press
go to ratshit
go to show
go to the mattresses
go to the well
go to waste
go tutti-frutti
go up
go with
go without
go with the flow of traffic
have it going on
have someone going
have something going for one
have something going with someone
heavy going
here goes
here goes nothing
here we go
how are you going
how's it going
I'll go to the foot of my stairs
I'll go to the foot of the stairs
I'm going to hell for this
I'm not going to lie
ingo
is it going to rain
is this train going to
it's going
keep going
like it's going out of fashion
like it's going out of style
make heavy going of
misgo
mosque-going
not going anywhere
not know whether one is coming or going
ongo
only dead fish go with the flow
on your mark
get set
go!
outgo
overgo
pay-as-you-go
ready
set
sea-going
snowgo
someone's driveway doesn't go all the way to the road
steady-going
stop-and-go light
stop-go animation
synagogue-going
temple-going
theatre-going
the box they're going to bury it in
the cobbler's children go barefoot
the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you're going to get
the screwing you get isn't worth the screwing you're going to get
the way things are going
thoroughgo
thorough-going
to be going on with
togo
tough going
umbego
undergo
wash and go
way-going
wend
what's going on
where are we going
where the puck is going
whoops, there go my trousers
withgo