go out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes out
form: going out
form: went out
form: gone out
Senses: examples: text: Please go out through the back door.
glosses: To leave, especially a building.
examples: text: They were going to stay in and read, but instead went out shopping.
text: On their first date they went out to dinner at a restaurant.
text: Let's go out tonight and have some fun!
text: A ſower went out to ſowe his ſeede / and as he ſowed / ſome fell by the waye ſyde / and hit was troden vnder fete / and the foules of the ayre devoured it vp.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke viij:[5], folios lxxxvj, verso – lxxxvij, recto:
text: It seems like we go out for pizza a lot these days.
ref: 1986 September 8, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):
antonyms: stay in
glosses: To leave one's abode to go to public places, especially for recreation or entertainment.
examples: text: Our team went out in the third round.
glosses: To be eliminated from a competition.
examples: text: The lights went out while I was taking a shower.
glosses: To come to an end, by nature or by an unseen external agent.
To be turned off or extinguished.
examples: text: When I hit him, he hit the floor and went out.
glosses: To come to an end, by nature or by an unseen external agent.
To go unconscious; to pass out.
examples: text: All the fizz has already gone out of the election campaign.
text: After diagnosis, all his confidence went out of him.
glosses: To come to an end, by nature or by an unseen external agent.
To be drained from; to disappear from somebody.
examples: text: And cold the poor man lies at night, / And so goes out the year.
ref: 1922 October, A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, “[Poem] XXVIII”, in Last Poems, London: Grant Richards Ltd., →OCLC, page 54:
glosses: To come to an end, by nature or by an unseen external agent.
To become extinct, to expire.
examples: text: As much as you may want to plan your funeral, you can't control when you go out.
text: 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
A motorcycle cop led the funeral procession & with all the cabs pulling up the rear we were 5–6 blocks long. The cops even blocked off streets for us. The guy went out like a goddamn mayor.
glosses: To come to an end, by nature or by an unseen external agent.
To die.
examples: text: Leon made two canastas, then went out by melding treys.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: To discard or meld all the cards in one's hand.
examples: text: He thought Nehru jackets went out in the late seventies.
text: And ‘blubbing’ . . . Blubbing went out with ‘decent’ and ‘ripping’. Mind you, not a bad new language to start up. 1920s schoolboy slang could be due for a revival.
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section II, page 24:
antonyms: come in
glosses: To pass out of fashion.
examples: text: They've been going out for three years now, but still live apart.
text: Jack and Susan are going out.
glosses: To have a romantic relationship, one that involves going out together on dates; to be a couple.
raw_tags: of a couple
examples: text: Do you think she will go out with anyone this year?
ref: 1978, Joe Jackson, Is She Really Going Out with Him?
glosses: To have a romantic relationship (with someone).
raw_tags: with with
examples: text: I'd like to help clear the field, but my knee went out on me.
glosses: To fail.
examples: text: Thank you for introducing us to your new album. Which song should we go out on?
glosses: To spend the last moments of a show (while playing something).
antonyms: come in
glosses: To recede; to ebb.
raw_tags: of the tide
examples: text: Our thoughts and prayers go out to those afflicted by the tragedy.
text: My heart went out to her, but there was nothing I could do.
glosses: To sympathize with; to express positive feelings towards.
raw_tags: of one's heart
examples: text: He went out at the firſt hint with the Neapolitan, and being an admirable ſwordſman, wounded and diſarmed him; […]
ref: 1789 May 27, [John Moore], chapter III, in Zeluco. Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from Life and Manners, Foreign and Domestic., volume I, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 20:
text: He must go out or be under a social ban. Out they go accordingly, and the trained pistol-shot kills his civilian opponent.
ref: 1890 December, Cornhill Magazine, page 626:
glosses: To take part in a duel (with).
examples: text: The first episode of the show goes out on Saturday.
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: To be broadcast.
Synonyms: sense: have a romantic relationship
word: date
word: date
Derived terms: go out on
go out with