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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

go to en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (capitalized, sometimes) The branching construct GOTO.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
go tos Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

going to · go to bed

go to en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, to.
    • All the jewelry went to her heirs.
    • Don't go to all that bother for me.
  2. (transitive) To attend an event or a sight.
    • We went to a concert for my birthday.
  3. (idiomatic, transitive) To attend classes at a school as a student.
    • He went to the University of Kansas for almost two years before he dropped out.
  4. (transitive) To tend to support.
    • The study goes to the point I was making earlier about subsidies.
  5. (archaic, intransitive) To get to work; (imperatively) come on.
    • Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges VII:3:
  6. (archaic, intransitive) Used imperatively to express protest or surprise; "come, now!".
    • Doctor: Go to, go to. You have known what you should not. c. 1588, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene I:
    • Benedict the Jew in vain pleaded parchments; his usuries were too many. The King said, “Go to, for all thy parchments, thou shalt pay just debt; down with thy dust, or observe this tooth-forceps!” 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. VIII, Unworking Aristocracy”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):
    • ‘Go to! — you’re dreaming, man! — there’s no one here.’ ‘Begging your pardon, sir, but there was someone there not a minute ago.’ 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:

Forms

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

Translations (23)

la aggredior (to move towards) · fi käydä (to attend classes at a school) · nb gå på (to attend an event or a sight) · sv gå på (to attend classes at a school) · nb gå på (to attend classes at a school) · sv gå i (to attend classes at a school) · fi mennä (to move towards) · fi käydä (to attend an event or a sight) · ta போ (to move towards) · it andare a (to move towards) · la adeo (to move towards) · it andare a (to attend an event or a sight) · ta போ (to attend an event or a sight) · it andare a (to attend classes at a school) · arz راح (to move towards) · nn gå på (to attend classes at a school) · da gå på (to attend classes at a school) · sv gå på (to attend an event or a sight) · da gå i (to attend classes at a school) · ta போ (to attend classes at a school) · it andare in (to move towards) · da gå på (to attend an event or a sight) · nn gå på (to attend an event or a sight)