go to

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See also: goto, GOTO, göto, and go-to

English[edit]

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Verb[edit]

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. To attend an event or a sight.
    We went to a concert for my birthday.
  3. (idiomatic) 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. To tend to support.
    The study goes to the point I was making earlier about subsidies.
  5. (intransitive, archaic) To get to work; (imperatively) come on.
  6. (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[edit]

  • The past participle may alternatively use been in place of gone.

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Noun[edit]

go to (plural go tos) (sometimes capitalised)

  1. (programming) The branching construct GOTO.

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References[edit]

  • go to”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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