go to
Verb
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Verb
go to
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see go, to
- To attend an event or a sight.
- We went to a concert for my birthday.
- (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.
- 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 Bible, Authorized (King James) Version, 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.
- 1611, The Bible, Authorized (King James) Version, Judges VII.3:
- (intransitive, archaic) Used imperatively to express protest or surprise; "come, now!".
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. VIII, Unworking Aristocracy
- 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!”
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. VIII, Unworking Aristocracy
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go to (plural go tos) (sometimes capitalised)
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