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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

go places en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To make progress or achieve success.
    • Herb Alpert’s 50th Album Is Here. What’s Kept Him Going Places? [title] 2024 September 16, Jim Farber, “Herb Alpert’s 50th Album Is Here. What’s Kept Him Going Places?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
  2. To travel.

Forms

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

Relateds

go a long way · got it going on

Synonyms

go far

Translations (5)

de erfolgreich sein (make progress) · ru идти́ в го́ру (make progress) · fi päästä pitkälle (make progress) · de es zu was bringen (make progress) · de Erfolg haben (make progress)