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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

go forth en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English gon forth, equivalent to go + forth. Compare forthgo.

Meanings

  1. To move oneself forward or onward
  2. To depart from a place; to set out.
    • "I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places.[…]" 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
  3. To be divulged or made generally known; to spread; to emanate.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
gone forth Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
went forth Tense=Past lexicographic
goes forth Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
going forth Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

go forth and multiply

Translations (3)

la prōdeō (depart from a place) · egy pr:r-D54 (depart from a place) · mi tāwhai (depart from a place)