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went to

went to is the simple past of go to.

Meaning of go to

Verb

go to (third-person singular simple present goes to, present participle going to, simple past went to, past participle gone to)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, to.
    • All the jewelry went to her heirs.
  2. (transitive) To attend an event or a sight.
    • We went to a concert for my birthday.
  3. (idiomatic, transitive) To attend classes at a school as a student.
    • He went to the University of Kansas for almost two years before he dropped out.
  4. (transitive) To tend to support.
    • The study goes to the point I was making earlier about subsidies.
  5. (archaic, intransitive) To get to work; (imperatively) come on.
    • Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges VII:3
  6. (archaic, intransitive) Used imperatively to express protest or surprise; "come, now!".
    • Doctor: Go to, go to. You have known what you should not.c. 1588, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene I

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Questions about went to

What is went to the simple past of?
Went to is the simple past of go to.

Words near went to in the dictionary

  1. went through the gears
  2. went through the mill
  3. went through the motions
  4. went through the trouble
  5. went through with
  6. went to
  7. went to bat
  8. went to bed
  9. went to bed with
  10. went to bed with the chickens
  11. went to bed with the sun

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Adapted from Wiktionary: went to (page history and authors); go 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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