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who goes there

who goes there phrase: a sentry's challenge to an intruder.

Phrase

who goes there?

  1. A sentry's challenge to an intruder.
    • Halt! Who goes there?
    • Egbert went quickly up to the causeway into the castle, where they heard the sentry sing out as usual, ‘Halt, who goes there?’1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 89
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see who, goes, there.
    • Everyone who goes there has fun.

Questions about who goes there

What does who goes there mean?
Who goes there means a sentry's challenge to an intruder.
What part of speech is who goes there?
Who goes there is a phrase.

Words near who goes there in the dictionary

  1. who died and made you boss
  2. who died and made you king
  3. who died and made you president
  4. who died and made you queen
  5. who do you think you are
  6. who goes there
  7. who hurt you
  8. who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl
  9. who keeps company with wolves, will learn to howl
  10. who knew
  11. who knows

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