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Definitions and meaning of go

go

Etymology 1

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”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: gō, IPA^(key): /ɡəʊ/
• (General American) enPR: gō, IPA^(key): /ɡoʊ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɡəʉ/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ɡɐʉ/
• Hyphenation: go
• Rhymes: -əʊ

Verb

go (third-person singular simple present goes, present participle going, simple past went or (archaic) yode, past participle gone)

1. To move:
   1. (intransitive) To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
      • 2005, David Neilson, Standstill →ISBN, page 159:

        [...] there was a general sense of panic going through the house; [...]

      • 2013, Mike Vouri, The Pig War: Standoff at Griffin Bay →ISBN, page 177

        Telegrams to London went by wire to Halifax, Nova Scotia, thence by steam mail packet to Liverpool, [...]

      • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

        I have to go now.

   2. (intransitive) 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.)
      • 2002 September 18, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 107th Congress, second session; Senate, page 17033:

        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.

      • 2010, Charlotte Sadler, Time for One More Dance →ISBN, page 162:

        "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."

      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.

      Fans want to see the Twelfth Doctor go to the 51st century to visit River in the library.

   3. (intransitive) To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
      • 2009, David J. Clark, The Unofficial Guide to Microsoft Office Word 2007 →ISBN, page 536:

        To access Office-related TechNet resources, go to www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/office.

      • 2009, Lisa W. Coyne, Amy R. Murrell, The Joy of Parenting →ISBN:

        Go to your earliest memory and to your favorite one, then to one that's difficult to consider.

      • 2012, Glen E. Clarke, Edward Tetz, CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One For Dummies →ISBN, page 280

        Go to drive C: through My Computer (or Computer in Windows 7 and Vista) and double-click the c:\data folder.

   4. To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
      • 2003, Harrison E. Salisbury, The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad →ISBN, page 307:

        The car went a short distance, then halted. There was something wrong with the carburetor.

   5. (intransitive) To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.

   6. (intransitive) To leave; to move away.

      Synonyms: depart, leave, exit, go away, go out

      Antonyms: come, arrive, approach
   7. (obsolete, intransitive) To walk; to travel on one's feet. [11th-19th c.]
      • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book XII:

        ‘As for that,’ seyde Sir Trystram, ‘I may chose othir to ryde othir to go.’

      • 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, page 129:

        Master Piercie our new President, was so sicke hee could neither goe nor stand.

   Synonyms: move, fare, tread, draw, drift, wend, cross

   Antonyms: freeze, halt, remain, stand still, stay, stop

2. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
   • 1997, New Scientist, volume 154, page 105:

     '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.

   • 2008, Michael Buckley, Shangri-La: A Practical Guide to the Himalayan Dream →ISBN, page 146

     [...] though his publisher swears black and blue that Kelder is still going strong and still remains an intensely private person.

   Synonyms: function, work, operate

3. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
   • 2001 June 18, a prophecy, quoted in Mary and the Unity of the Church →ISBN, page 49:

     Be listening for my voice. Go when you hear my voice say go.

4. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.

   Synonyms: move, make one's move, take one’s turn

5. (intransitive) To attend.

6. To proceed:
   1. (intransitive) To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
      • 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations

        I think, as the world goes, he was a good sort of man enough.

      • 1724, Isaac Watts, Logick, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard Against Error in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as well as in the Sciences.

        Whether the cause goes for me or against me, you must pay me the reward.

      • 1986, The Opera Quarterly, volume 4, issues 3-4, page 24:

        I certainly won't mention it to Ben, and will go carefully if he mentions it to me.

   2. (intransitive, colloquial, with another verb, sometimes linked by and) To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
      • 2011, Debra Glass, Scarlet Widow →ISBN, page 96:

        And even if she had believed the story about a John Smith, she might go telling everyone in town about what she'd seen.

7. To follow or travel along (a path):
   1. To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).

      She was going that way anyway, so she offered to show him where it was.

   2. To travel or pass along.
      • 2010, Luke Dixon, Khartoum →ISBN, page 60:

        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.

8. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
   • 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:

     I think those figures start from 1932 and go to 1941, inclusive, [...]

   • 2007, Math for All: Differentiating instruction, grades K-2 →ISBN, page 38:

     Even though they can give a basic fact such as 4 4, I don't know that this knowledge goes very deep for them.

9. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
   • 2013, Without Delusion→ISBN, page 191:

     “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.”

10. (copulative) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
    • 2001, Saverio Giovacchini, Hollywood Modernism: Film and Politics →ISBN, page 18

      Referring to the American radicals who went Hollywood in the 1930s, Abraham Polonsky argues that "you can't possibly explain the Hollywood communists away [...]"

    Synonyms: become, turn, change into

11. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
    • 1912, The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Stationer, volume 36, page 17:

      There is scarcely a business man who is not occasionally asked to go bail for somebody.
12. (intransitive, copulative) To continuously or habitually be in a state.

13. (copulative) To come to (a certain condition or state).

14. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.

15. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
    • 2014, Tim Harris, Politics Under the Later Stuarts →ISBN, page 195

      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.

16. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).

17. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
    • 1839, A Challenge to Phrenologists; Or, Phrenology Tested, page 155:

      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.

    • 1907, Patrick Doyle, Indian Engineering, volume 41, page 181:

      The avoirdupois pound is one of 7,000 grains, and go to the pound.

18. To pass, to be used up:
    1. (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
       • 1850, Sketches of New England Character, in Holden's Dollar Magazine, volumes 5-6, page 731:

         But the days went and went, and she never came; and then I thought I would come here where you were.

       • 2008, Sue Raymond, Hidden Secrets →ISBN, page 357:

         The rest of the morning went quickly and before Su knew it Jean was knocking on the door [...]

    2. (intransitive) To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)

       Synonyms: disappear, vanish, go away, end, dissipate

       Antonyms: remain, stay, hold

    3. (intransitive) To be spent or used up.
       • 2011, Ross Macdonald, Black Money →ISBN, page 29:

         All I have is a sleeping bag right now. All my money goes to keep up the cars.

19. (intransitive) To die.
20. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out:
    1. (intransitive, cricket, of a wicket) To be lost.
    2. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To be out.
21. To break down or apart:
    1. (intransitive) To collapse or give way, to break apart.
       • 2011, Shaunti Feldhahn, The Lights of Tenth Street →ISBN:

         Sober-eyed commentators safe in their television studios interviewed engineers about the chances that the rest of the dam could go.

       • 2012, Carolyn Keene, Mardi Gras Masquerade →ISBN, page 38:

         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."

       Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way

    2. (intransitive) To break down or decay.

22. (intransitive) To be sold.

23. (intransitive) To be discarded or disposed of.

24. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
25. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
    • 1983, Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 84, page 48:

      Against the Big Green, Princeton went the entire first and third quarters without gaining a first down, [...]

    • 2011, H. R. F. Keating, Zen there was Murder →ISBN:

      'Surely one cannot go for long in this world to-day without at least a thought for St Simon Stylites?'

26. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.

27. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid:
    1. (intransitive) To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.

    2. (intransitive) To be accepted.

       • The man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.

       • The money which remains should go according to its true value.

    3. (intransitive) To be valid.
       • 2014, Shayna Lance King, If You'd Read This Book: You'd Be Employed By Now →ISBN, page 22

         [To job interviews, wear] muted colors. No pink or paisley (that goes for you too, guys!) [...]

28. To say (something), to make a sound:
    1. (transitive, slang) To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)

    2. (transitive) To make the (specified) sound.

    3. (intransitive) To sound; to make a noise.
       • 1992 June 24, Edwina Currie, Diary:

         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.

29. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).

30. (intransitive) To resort (to).

31. To apply or subject oneself to:
    1. To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)

       • Seeing himself confronted by so many, like a resolute orator, he went not to denial, but to justify his cruel falsehood.

       • 1990, Celestine Sibley, Tokens of myself →ISBN, page 73:

         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.

    2. (intransitive) To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).

    3. (intransitive) To work (through or over), especially mentally.

32. To fit (in a place, or together with something):
    1. (intransitive, often followed by a preposition) To fit.

       Synonyms: fit, pass, stretch, come, make it

    2. (intransitive) To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.

       Synonym: harmonize

       Antonym: clash

    3. (intransitive) To belong (somewhere).

       Synonyms: belong, have a place

33. (intransitive) To date.

    Synonyms: go out (with), date, see

34. To attack:
    1. (intransitive) To fight or attack.

    2. (transitive, obsolete, US, slang) To fight.
    3. (transitive, Australian slang) To attack.
       • 2002, James Freud, I am the Voice Left from Drinking, unnumbered page:

         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.

       • 2005, Joy Dettman, One Sunday, page 297,

         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.

35. To be in general; to be usually.

    As sentences go, this one is pretty boring.
36. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.

37. (transitive) To yield or weigh.

38. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.

39. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.)

40. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, Thesaurus:defecate

41. (imperative) Expressing encouragement or approval.

Usage notes

• Along with do, make, and to a lesser extent other English verbs, go is often used as a substitute for a verb that was used previously or that is implied, in the same way a pronoun substitutes for a noun. For example:

  Chris: Then he goes like this: (Chris then waves arms around, implying that the phrase means then he waves his arms).

• Some speakers use went for the past participle, especially in informal contexts, though this is considered nonstandard and is proscribed.
• Like other English verbs, the verb go once had an alternative present participle formed with the suffix -and, i.e. goand. Goand is now obsolete, having been replaced by going, except in a few rural dialects in Scotland and Northern England, where it is considered archaic. Even in such dialects, it is never used to form the continuous tenses. These examples are from the Highlands:

• In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use, and verbs used -est for distinct second-person singular indicative forms, the verb go had the form goest, and had wentest for its past tense.
• Similarly, when the ending -eth was in active use for third-person singular present indicative forms, the form goeth was used.

Conjugation

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:go.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

go (countable and uncountable, plural goes)

1. (uncommon) The act of going.
   • 1993, Francis J. Sheed, Theology and Sanity (→ISBN):

     The Apostles were to be the first of a line. They would multiply successors, and the successors would die and their successors after them, but the line would never fail; and the come and go of men would not matter, since it is the one Christ operating through all of them.
2. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).

   Synonyms: stint, (turn in a game) turn, (turn in a game) move, turn

3. An attempt, a try.

   Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try

4. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
   • 1894, Bret Harte, The Sheriff of Siskyou

     "Well, Tom, is it a go? You can trust me, for you'll have the thousand in your pocket before you start.[...]"

   • 2009, Craig Nelson, Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon →ISBN

     And as soon as we gave them the go to continue, we lost communication.

   Synonym: green light

5. An act; the working or operation.
   • 1598, John Marston, Pigmalion, The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Image and Certaine Satyres, 1856, J. O. Halliwell (editor), The Works of John Marston: Reprinted from the Original Editions, Volume 3, page 211,

     Let this suffice, that that same happy night, / So gracious were the goes of marriage [...]

6. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident, often unexpected.
   • 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, in 1868, The Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 2: Nicholas Nickleby, Martin Chuzzlewit, American Notes, page 306,

     “Well, this is a pretty go, is this here! An uncommon pretty go!

   • 1869, Punch (volume 57, page 257)

     “Ain't this a rum go? This is a queer sort of dodge for lighting the streets.”
7. (dated) The fashion or mode.
   • 1852, Jane Thomas (née Pinhorn), The London and Paris ladies' magazine of fashion (page 97)

     We are blowing each other out of the market with cheapness; but it is all the go, so we must not be behind the age.

   Synonyms: mode, style, trend

8. (dated) Noisy merriment.
   • 1820, Thomas Moore, W. Simpkin, R. Marshall, Jack Randall's Diary of Proceedings at the House of Call for Genius

     Gemmen (says he), you all well know / The joy there is whene'er we meet; / It's what I call the primest go, / And rightly named, 'tis—'quite a treat,' […]

9. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
   • 1868 March, In a City Bus, in the Eclectic Magazine, new series volume VII, number 3:

     “Then, if you value it so highly,” I said, “you can hardly object to stand half a go of brandy for its recovery.”

   Synonyms: gage, measure

10. (uncountable) Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.

    Synonyms: energy, flair, liveliness, perseverance, pizzazz, spirit, verve, vigour, vim, vitality, zest

11. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
12. A period of activity.
    • 1995, William Noel, The Harley Psalter →ISBN, page 65

      This could mean that the artist traced the illustration in two goes, as it were, or that the Utrecht Psalter slipped while he was tracing, but I do not think that the relative proportions are consistent enough to demonstrate this.

13. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.

    See Thesaurus:dandy

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

go (not comparable)

1. (postpositive, chiefly military and spaceflight) Working correctly and ready to commence operation; approved and able to be put into action.
   • 1962, United States. Congress, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress, page 2754:

     John Glenn reports all systems are go.

   • 1964, Instruments and Control Systems

     "Life support system is go," said the earphone.

   • 2011, Matthew Stover, Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor: Star Wars Legends, Del Rey (→ISBN)

     “Green One has four starts and is go.”

Etymology 2

From the Japanese 碁 (go), one character of the game's more usual Japanese name 囲碁 (igo), taken from the Chinese 圍棋.

Alternative forms

• Go

Noun

go (uncountable)

2. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.

   Synonyms: weiqi, baduk

Translations

Further reading

• go at OneLook Dictionary Search
• go in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• 'og, O&G, O.G., OG, Og, og

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Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• (particle; preposition) ga, ge, gi, gu; gan, gon
• (verb) gā, gān, ga, gaa, gah, gan, ge, gi, goo, goh, gou, gu

Etymology 1

Short form of gon (“to, towards”). Particle served originally as a preposition (prespositions gon, gan still do). Cognate to (particle/preposition) Alemannic German ga, ge, gi, gu, etc. From Middle High German gon (gan, gen), from Old High German gagan, from Proto-Germanic *gagin. Cognate to German gen (“to, towards”), gegen (“against, towards”), Dutch tegen, English gain, gain-, again, against, Icelandic gegn.

Not to be confused with the verb go (“to go”) (gaa, goo, etc.).

Pronunciation

• (Swiss) IPA^(key): [ɡo], [ɡɔ]
• Hyphenation: go

Particle

go

1. to (particle follows after verbs (such as go, come); placed before infinitive)

   Synonyms: (in northern and western Switzerland dialects with certain verbs) cho, lah

Preposition

go

1. (dated) to, towards (indicating a direction; nowaday often replaced by uf, nach)

   Synonyms: uf, nach

2. to (used a verb preposition; in combination with verbs and often reduplicated. See particle for more)
3. (used as an auxiliary time verb for perfect (tense) sentences; placed after verb sii (“being”) and causing an omission of participle gange (“went”))

Etymology 2

Cognate to (verb) Alemannic German gon (“go”), ga, gan, etc. From Middle High German gān (gēn), from Old High German gān, (gēn), from Proto-West Germanic *gān, from Proto-Germanic *gāną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave”). Cognate with German gehen, Low German gan, gahn, Dutch gaan, English go, Danish and Swedish gå.

Not to be confused with the particle/preposition go (“to, towards”) (ga, ge, etc.).

Pronunciation

• (Swiss) IPA^(key): [ɡoː], [ɡɔː]
• Hyphenation: go

Verb

go (goo, goh) (third-person singular simple present goht, past participle ggange, past subjunctive gieng, auxiliary sii)

1. to go, to walk, step (movement/motion indicating starting point, direction, aim and purpose)
2. to go away, walk away , step away
3. to enter; to step in(side), walk in(side), step in(side) (+ inne (“in(side)”) (ine (“id”)); a room, house, building)
4. to be in motion, to work

5. to flow (indicating flow direction of a river, stream, creek)

Related terms

• (preposition, particle) gäg, gäge, goge, gogen
• (preposition, particle, verb) gango, gang go

Further reading

• [9] particle/preposition/verb "go" (gā, ga, gān, gan, gāⁿ, gaⁿ, go,​ goⁿ,​ gogeⁿ,​ gi) in Schweizerisches Idiotikon (Swiss,Idiotikon)
• [10] article about "go" (to, towards, against) in Schweizerisches Idiotikon (Swiss Idiotikon), by Christoph Landolt, August 2018

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Arigidi

Adjective

go

1. tall

References

• B. Oshodi, The HTS (High Tone Syllable) in Arigidi: An Introduction, in the Nordic Journal of African Studies 20(4): 263–275 (2011)

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Czech

Etymology 1

From Japanese 碁 (go), from Chinese 圍棋.

Noun

go n

1. (board games) go

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Dutch

Etymology 1

From Japanese 碁 (go), from Chinese 圍棋.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -oː

Noun

go n (uncountable)

1. (board games) go

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡo]
• Audio:
• Hyphenation: go

Noun

go (accusative singular go-on, plural go-oj, accusative plural go-ojn)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter G.

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) litero; a, bo, co, ĉo, do, e, fo, go, ĝo, ho, ĥo, i, jo, ĵo, ko, lo, mo, no, o, po, ro, so, ŝo, to, u, ŭo, vo, zo

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Finnish

Etymology

From Japanese 碁 (go).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡoː/, [ˈɡo̞ː]

Noun

go

1. go (game)

Declension

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡo/
• Rhymes: -o

Etymology 1

From Japanese 碁 (go), from Chinese 圍棋.

Noun

go m (plural go)

1. go (board game)

   Synonym: jeu de go

Etymology 2

Noun

go m (plural gos)

1. Alternative form of gau

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Bambara go, from English girl.

Noun

go f (plural go or gos)

1. kweng, girl

Further reading

• “go” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Hungarian

Etymology

From Japanese 碁 (go), though it is usually called 囲碁 (igo) in Japanese.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡoː]
• Rhymes: -ɡoː

Noun

go (plural gók)

1. (board games) go

Declension

Derived terms

• gózik
• gotábla

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Indonesian

Etymology

From the Japanese 碁 (go) character, though it is usually called 囲碁 (igo) in Japanese.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡo/
• Hyphenation: go

Noun

go (first-person possessive goku, second-person possessive gomu, third-person possessive gonya)

2. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish co, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“next to, at, with, along”). Cognate with German ge- (“with”) (collective prefix) and gegen (“toward, against”), English gain-, Spanish con (“with”), Russian ко (ko, “to”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔ/, /ɡə/

Conjunction

go (triggers eclipsis, takes dependent form of irregular verbs)

1. that (used to introduce a subordinate clause)

2. used to introduce a subjunctive hortative

3. until, till

   Synonym: go dtí go

Related terms

• (introducing subordinate clause; until):
  • gur (for past tenses)
  • nach (for negated clauses)
  • nár (for past tenses in negated clauses)
• (introducing subjunctive hortative): nár (for a negative wish)

Preposition

go (plus dative, triggers h-prothesis, before the definite article gos)

1. to (with places), till, until

Usage notes

• In the meaning "to", used with place names that do not start with a definite article. Place names that do start with a definite article take the preposition go dtí instead.

Synonyms

• go dtí

Particle

go (triggers h-prothesis)

1. used to make temporary state adverbs and predicative adjectives

   compare:

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Italian

Etymology

From Japanese 碁 (go), from Chinese 圍棋.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔ/^*, /ˈɡo/^*
• Rhymes: -ɔ, -o
• Hyphenation: gò, gó

Noun

go m (uncountable)

1. (board games) go

References

Further reading

• go in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Iu Mien

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *qʷuw (“far”), from Chinese 迂 (OC *qʷ(r)a, *[ɢ]ʷ(r)a). Cognate with White Hmong deb and Western Xiangxi Miao [Fenghuang] ghoub.

Adjective

go 

1. far, distant

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Japanese

Romanization

go

1. Rōmaji transcription of ご
2. Rōmaji transcription of ゴ

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Middle English

Verb

go

1. Alternative form of gon (“to go”)

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Northern Sami

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈko/

Conjunction

go

1. when
2. when, as
3. since, because
4. (in comparisons) than

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[11], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

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Ojibwe

Alternative forms

• igo, igwa

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Particle

go

1. emphasis marker

References

• The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/go-pc-disc

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Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit गो (go)

Noun

go m or f

1. cow, ox, bull

Declension

Derived terms

• gāvī

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Pijin

Etymology

From English go.

Verb

go

1. to go; to leave; to go to; to go toward

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɔ

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronoun

go m

1. genitive/accusative singular mute of on

Pronoun

go n

1. genitive singular mute of ono

See also

• Appendix:Polish pronouns

Etymology 2

From Japanese 碁 (go).

Noun

go n (indeclinable)

1. go

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Portuguese

Etymology 2

From Japanese 碁 (go), from Chinese 圍棋.

Noun

go m (uncountable)

1. (board games) go (Chinese strategy board game)

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• gȏl (Croatia)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *golъ, from Proto-Indo-European *galw- (“naked, bald”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡôː/

Adjective

gȏ (definite gȍlī, comparative gòlijī, Cyrillic spelling го̑)

1. (Bosnia, Serbia) naked, nude, bare

Declension

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Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English go.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡo/

Verb

go

1. To go

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English go.

Verb

go

1. go, leave

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Venetian

Verb

go

1. first-person singular present indicative of gaver

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ɣɔ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ɣɔ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ɣɔ˧˧]

Noun

go

1. woof, weft

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Volapük

Adverb

go

1. absolutely

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Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh gwo-, from Old Welsh guo-, from Proto-Brythonic *gwo-, from Proto-Celtic *uɸo- (“under”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡoː/

Adverb

go (causes soft mutation)

1. pretty, a bit, fairly

Derived terms

• go iawn (“real, proper”)
• go lew (“decent, alright”)

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Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse góðr, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz.

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /ɡuː/

  Rhymes: -úː, -úːð, -úːr

Adjective

go (neuter gött or gått or gódt)

1. excellent

2. (neuter, adverbially)

3. able

4. tasty

5. easily done
6. friendly, honest

Derived terms

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /²ɡuː/

  Rhymes: -ùː, -ùːð, -ùːr

Adverb

go

1. well, good

References

• Larsson, Evert, Söderström, Sven, “god a. go:”, in Hössjömålet : ordbok över en sydvästerbottnisk dialekt [The Hössjö speech: dictionary of a southern Westrobothnian dialect] (in Swedish) →ISBN, page 74

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Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ko˨˦/
• Tone numbers: go¹
• Hyphenation: go

Etymology 1

From Chinese 棵.

Classifier

go (old orthography go)

1. Used with plants.

Etymology 2

From Chinese 歌 (MC kɑ).

Noun

go (old orthography go)

1. song

Etymology 3

From Chinese 哥 (MC kɑ).

Noun

go (old orthography go)

1. elder brother

   Synonyms: (dialectal) goq, (dialectal) goj

2. male relative outside of one's nuclear family, of the same generation, and older than oneself; brother-in-law or cousin

Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “from 個?”)

Particle

go (old orthography go)

1. Used sentence-finally to express certainty or decisiveness.

   Synonym: (dialectal) goh

Source: wiktionary.org

• to move along.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)