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gone back to

gone back to is the past participle 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 gone back to

What is gone back to the past participle of?
Gone back to is the past participle of go back to.

Words near gone back to in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gone 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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