Meanings
present singular third person goes home · participle present going home · past went home · participle past gone home
- euphemisticTo die.
Louis went home at around 2:30 yesterday.
Synonyms: pass away, pass, cross over, go to be with the Lord
- euphemisticTo be eliminated in a competition.
Hellriegel's program tells him who is receiving a lot of votes (long periods of busy signals) and who is not (easy to ring through), and the website tells viewers who is most likely to go home – rather than who is most likely to stay.
2009, Sharon Marie Ross, Beyond the Box: Television and the Internet, page 82
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo die.
More synonyms by meaning
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Chinese Cantonese 返屋企
- 返屋企 (faan¹ uk¹ kei²)return to one's house
Chinese Mandarin 回去, 回家
- 回去 (huíqù)euphemism: to die
- 回家 (huíjiā)return to one's house
Finnish nukkua pois, mennä kotiin
- nukkua poiseuphemism: to die
- mennä kotiinreturn to one's house
French rentrer, regagner ses pénates
- rentrerreturn to one's house
- regagner ses pénatesreturn to one's house
German heimkehren
- heimkehrenreturn to one's house
Hungarian hazamegy
- hazamegyreturn to one's house
Indonesian berpulang
- berpulangeuphemism: to die
Japanese 帰る
- 帰る (kaeru)return to one's house
Polish odchodzić w zaświaty, odejść w zaświaty
- odchodzić w zaświatyeuphemism: to die
- odejść w zaświatyeuphemism: to die
- iść do domureturn to one's house
- pójść do domureturn to one's house
Portuguese ir embora
- ir emborareturn to one's house
Russian вернуться домой, прийти домой
- вернуться домой (vernutʹsja domoj)return to one's house
- прийти домой (prijti domoj)return to one's house
Swedish gå hem
- gå hemreturn to one's house
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with go home
Cite this entry
go home. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/go%20home
“go home.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/go%20home. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “go home,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/go%20home.
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