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go to

go to verb: used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, to.

Verb

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

  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...

Noun

go to (plural go tos)

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

go to meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Sanskrit and Assamese

go to in Hindi

to go to, extend
जाना jānā

go to in Tamil

to move towards
போ pō
to attend an event or a sight
போ pō
to attend classes at a school
போ pō

go to in Sanskrit

to go to or towards, approach
गच्छति gácchati
to go to, approach, resort or have recourse to , tend towards
श्रयति śráyati
to go to or towards
एति éti
to go to, go against, encounter
वेवेष्टि véveṣṭi

go to in Assamese

to go to, extend
যা za, যোৱা züa

Forms of go to

Verb
third-person singular presentgoes to
present participlegoing to
pastwent to
past participlegone to
Noun
pluralgo tos

Questions about go to

What does go to mean?
Go to means used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, to.
What is go to in Hindi?
Go to in Hindi is जाना (jānā). See Go to meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is go to?
Go to can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of go to?
The past tense of go to is went to.

Words near go to in the dictionary

  1. go through the gears
  2. go through the mill
  3. go through the motions
  4. go through the trouble
  5. go through with
  6. go to
  7. go to bat
  8. go to bed
  9. go to bed with
  10. go to bed with the chickens
  11. go to bed with the sun

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: go to (page history and authors); जाना (Hindi) (page history and authors); एति (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); যা (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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