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goes back to

goes back to is the third-person singular simple present indicative of go back to.

Meaning of go back to

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To stem from; to originate in.
    • The awqaf system in India goes back to the early days of the Islamic presence in the subcontinent.
  2. (transitive) To know each other since long from.
    • Bill and I go back to college.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go back, to.
    • It was time to go back to the hotel.

Questions about goes back to

What is goes back to the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Goes back to is the third-person singular simple present indicative of go back to.

Words near goes back to in the dictionary

  1. goes awry
  2. goes back
  3. goes back a long way
  4. goes back in time
  5. goes back on
  6. goes back to
  7. goes back to the drawing board
  8. goes back to the tools
  9. goes backwards
  10. goes bad
  11. goes ballistic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: goes back to (page history and authors); go back to (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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