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Golang

Golang proper noun: synonym of Go.

Proper noun

Golang

  1. Synonym of Go.
    • I don't mind people saying Golang. Once. In a title or a tag or something. So search engines can find it. Once. Once. Fucking once.[2021 October 8, u/theclapp, “What's up with people not liking the term "golang"?”, in Reddit, r/golang, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2026
    • For the Golang community, it didn't help that the language came out of Google, an advertising platform with accessories.2023 May 17, Thomas Claburn, “Google Go language goes with opt-in telemetry”, in The Register, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2024
    Synonyms:
    Go

Synonyms of Golang

Origin of Golang

From Go + -lang, used to avoid ambiguity.

Questions about Golang

What does Golang mean?
Golang means synonym of Go.
What part of speech is Golang?
Golang is a proper noun.

Words near Golang in the dictionary

  1. Golakhvor
  2. Golan
  3. Golan Heights
  4. golandause
  5. golandauses
  6. Golang
  7. Golans
  8. Golant
  9. golas
  10. Golaseccan
  11. Golases

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Golang (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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