go to
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Verb
editgo to (third-person singular simple present goes to, present participle going to, simple past went to, past participle gone to)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, to.
- All the jewelry went to her heirs.
- (transitive) To attend an event or a sight.
- We went to a concert for my birthday.
- (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.
- (transitive) To tend to support.
- The study goes to the point I was making earlier about subsidies.
- (intransitive, archaic) To get to work; (imperatively) come on.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges VII:3:
- 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.
- (intransitive, archaic) Used imperatively to express protest or surprise; "come, now!".
- c. 1588, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene I:
- Doctor: Go to, go to. You have known what you should not.
- 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. VIII, Unworking Aristocracy”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):
- Benedict the Jew in vain pleaded parchments; his usuries were too many. The King said, “Go to, for all thy parchments, thou shalt pay just debt; down with thy dust, or observe this tooth-forceps!”
- 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
- ‘Go to! — you’re dreaming, man! — there’s no one here.’
‘Begging your pardon, sir, but there was someone there not a minute ago.’
Usage notes
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edit- For quotations using this term, see Citations:go to.
Translations
editto move towards
to attend an event or a sight
to attend classes at a school
Noun
editgo to (plural go tos) (sometimes capitalised)
- (programming) The branching construct GOTO.
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edit- “go to”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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