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goes one's own way

goes one's own way is the third-person singular simple present indicative of go one's own way.

Meaning of go one's own way

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

Questions about goes one's own way

What is goes one's own way the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Goes one's own way is the third-person singular simple present indicative of go one's own way.

Words near goes one's own way in the dictionary

  1. goes on the account
  2. goes on the mitch
  3. goes on the scout
  4. goes on vacation
  5. goes one better
  6. goes one's own way
  7. goes one's ways
  8. goes or blows
  9. goes out
  10. goes out of one's way
  11. goes out on a limb

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