goes
UK/ɡəʊz/
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Northumbria/ɡænz/
goes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of go.
goes is the plural of go.
Meaning of go
Verb
go (third-person singular simple present goes, present participle going, simple past went or (obsolete) yode or (nonstandard) goed, past participle gone or (nonstandard) went)
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things such as people or cars, or intangible things such as moods or information.)
- Why don’t you go with us?
- 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.)
- 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.
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc.).
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- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- We went swimming.
- To leave; to move away.
- Please don't go!
Proper noun (1) capitalized: GOES
GOES
- Abbreviation of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite.
Noun (1) capitalized: GOEs
GOEs
- plural of GOE
Noun (2) capitalized: GoEs
GoEs
- plural of GoE
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Goes
Goes (plural Goeses)
- A surname.
Forms of goes
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| alternative Northumbria | gans |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Goeses |
Origin of goes
Two possible origins: * Borrowed from Dutch Goes, a habitational surname from a city in the province of Zeeland. * Borrowed from Portuguese Goes, a habitational surname from any of several places called Góis.
Phrases with goes
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- goes for
- goes ham
- goes nap
- goes off
- goes out
- goes away
- goes awry
- goes back
- goes brrr
- goes bush
- goes bust
- goes dark
- goes deep
- goes down
- goes easy
- goes face
- goes free
- goes Galt
- goes gold
- goes hang
- goes hard
- goes home
- goes into
- goes left
- goes long
- goes nuts
- goes over
- goes past
- goes phut
- goes poof
- goes sing
- goes soft
- goes sour
- goes west
- goes wide
- goes wild
- goes with
- here goes
- nose goes
- what goes
- as it goes
- goes about
- goes after
- goes ahead
- goes along
- goes amiss
- goes at it
- goes below
- goes cheap
- goes crazy
- goes cunch
- goes Dutch
- goes fetal
- goes forth
- goes green
- goes in on
- goes moggy
- goes on by
- goes potty
- goes rogue
- goes round
- goes short
- goes snake
- goes south
- goes there
- goes under
- goes viral
- goes wrong
- great goes
- so it goes
- goes abroad
- goes around
- goes astray
- goes beyond
- goes for it
- goes H.A.M.
- goes halves
- goes hungry
- goes in off
- goes mental
- goes nap on
- goes narrow
- goes native
- goes places
- goes postal
- goes public
- goes strong
- goes to bat
- goes to bed
- goes to pot
- goes to sea
- goes to war
- goes toilet
- goes up for
- goes whacks
- how goes it
- little goes
- gas and goes
- goes a raker
- goes against
- goes all out
- goes apeshit
- goes back on
- goes back to
- goes bananas
- goes batshit
- goes begging
- goes berserk
- goes between
- goes bonkers
- goes bye-bye
- goes cahoots
- goes country
- goes down on
- goes haywire
- goes hostile
- goes in unto
- goes in with
- goes missing
- goes nowhere
- goes nuclear
- goes on fire
- goes quietly
- goes through
- goes to heck
- goes to hell
- goes to plan
- goes to seed
- goes to shit
- goes to show
- goes to town
- goes to work
- goes too far
- goes towards
- goes walkies
- goes walking
- goes whistle
- goes without
- life goes on
- what goes on
- anything goes
- goes a mucker
- goes about to
- goes balls up
- goes bankrupt
- goes belly-up
- goes commando
- goes downhill
- goes downtown
- goes equipped
- goes for gold
- goes halfsies
- goes it alone
- goes negative
- goes or blows
- goes platinum
- goes straight
- goes to earth
- goes to grass
- goes to pains
- goes to press
- goes to sleep
- goes to smash
- goes to waste
- goes to water
- goes together
- goes way back
- comes and goes
- goes a cropper
- goes backwards
- goes ballistic
- goes both ways
- goes down with
- goes five-hole
- goes for broke
- goes gaga over
- goes Hollywood
- goes on record
- goes on strike
- goes overboard
- goes Pete Tong
- goes so far as
- goes supernova
- goes the route
- goes to Cain's
- goes to ground
- goes to pieces
- goes walkabout
Words that rhyme with goes
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- interpose
- propose
- gloze
- oppose
- disclose
- foreclose
- prose
- snows
- turn up one's nose
- unclose
- adipose
- appose
- arose
- chose
- counterpose
- croze
- decompose
- doze
- enclose
- froze
- hoes
- knows
- adoze
- apollos
- beaus
- beprose
- blows
- bose
- bros
- châteaux
- cloze
- coze
- crows
- does
- dos
- doughs
- fallows
- fellows
- flows
- foes
- follows
- foredispose
- frows
- glows
- grows
- hard-nose
- hollows
- joes
Questions about goes
- What does goes mean?
- Goes means a surname.
- What is goes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
- Goes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of go.
- What part of speech is goes?
- Goes can be a proper noun or a noun.
- How do you pronounce goes?
- Goes is pronounced /ɡəʊz/ (UK).
Words near goes in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: goes (page history and authors); GOES (page history and authors); GOEs (page history and authors); GoEs (page history and authors); Goes (page history and authors); go (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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