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goes by the name of

goes by the name of is the third-person singular simple present indicative of go by the name of.

Meaning of go by the name of

Verb

go by the name of (third-person singular simple present goes by the name of, present participle going by the name of, simple past went by the name of, past participle gone by the name of)

  1. To call oneself; to use as a name, especially a moniker or nickname.
    • Beside me is an affable young man who goes by the name of Haz.2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just...

Questions about goes by the name of

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

Words near goes by the name of in the dictionary

  1. goes brrr
  2. goes bush
  3. goes bust
  4. goes by
  5. goes by the board
  6. goes by the name of
  7. goes by the wayside
  8. goes bye-bye
  9. goes cahoots
  10. goes chapter 11
  11. goes cheap

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Adapted from Wiktionary: goes by the name of (page history and authors); go by the name of (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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