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go one's own way

go one's own way verb: to act on one's own or according to one's own wishes, without regard of the advice of others.

Verb

go one's own way (third-person singular simple present goes one's own way, present participle going one's own way, simple past went one's own way, past participle gone one's own way)

  1. (idiomatic) To act on one's own or according to one's own wishes, without regard of the advice of others.
    • Why should she say, like a parrot, what her governess told her to, when there were birds and beasts and creeping things outside to study, and a library inside full of things really worth learning? So she went her own way, growing wistful and more lonely, and every day her big eyes grew wiser and...1907, Margaret Pollock Sherwood, Bruce Rogers, The Princess Pourquoi, Mifflin & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 12

Forms of go one's own way

third-person singular presentgoes one's own way
present participlegoing one's own way
pastwent one's own way
past participlegone one's own way

Questions about go one's own way

What does go one's own way mean?
Go one's own way means to act on one's own or according to one's own wishes, without regard of the advice of others.
What part of speech is go one's own way?
Go one's own way is a verb.
What is the past tense of go one's own way?
The past tense of go one's own way is went one's own way.

Words near go one's own way in the dictionary

  1. go on the scout
  2. go on then
  3. go on vacation
  4. go on with you
  5. go one better
  6. go one's own way
  7. go one's way
  8. go one's ways
  9. go or blow
  10. go order
  11. go orders

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