GoFundMe
GoFundMe proper noun: a crowdfunding website that allows people to raise money.
Proper noun
GoFundMe
- A crowdfunding website that allows people to raise money.
- The two Americans, Jacob Harlan and Alyssa Petersen, were detained late last month and are being held in Zhenjiang, a town in Jiangsu Province, according to GoFundMe pages set up by friends and relatives.2019 October 17, Amy Qin, “China Detains 2 Americans Amid Growing Scrutiny of Foreigners”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2019, Asia Pacific
Noun
GoFundMe (plural GoFundMes)
- A fundraiser on this website.
- A group of students known as the Yang Welfare Collective (YWC) have banded together to start a GoFundMe for the impoverished chancellor, and donations are already flowing in.2022 January 27, Sam Franzini, “$580k Not Enough: Generous Students Start GoFundMe for Needy Yang”, in Daily Nexus
- More recently, the platform [Spotify] has announced plans to introduce a ‘Merch Hub’ – listeners will be able buy^([sic]) merch from their favourite musicians within the app, while musicians themselves can directly link to their CashApps or GoFundMes.2024, Cher Tan, Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging, Sydney, N.S.W.: NewSouth Publishing, →ISBN
Forms of GoFundMe
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Origin of GoFundMe
From go + fund + me.
Questions about GoFundMe
- What does GoFundMe mean?
- GoFundMe means a crowdfunding website that allows people to raise money.
- What part of speech is GoFundMe?
- GoFundMe can be a proper noun or a noun.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: GoFundMe (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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