go to

See also: goto, GOTO, göto, and go-to

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Audio (Mid-Atlantic US):

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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. (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.

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

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

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:go to.

Translations

to move towards

• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: راح (raaH)

• Finnish: mennä (fi)
• Italian: andare a, andare in
• Latin: adeo (la), aggredior (la)

to attend an event or a sight

• Danish: gå på
• Finnish: käydä (fi)
• Italian: andare a
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gå på

  Nynorsk: gå på

• Swedish: gå på (sv)

to attend classes at a school

• Danish: gå i, gå på
• Finnish: käydä (fi)
• Italian: andare a
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gå på

  Nynorsk: gå på

• Swedish: gå i (sv), gå på (sv)

Noun

go to (plural go tos) (sometimes capitalised)

1. (programming) The branching construct GOTO.

See also

• going to
• go to bed

References

• “go to”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Togo, goot, to go, togo