go to

present singular third person goes to · participle present going to · past went to · participle past gone to

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, to.

   All the jewelry went to her heirs.

   1 more example

   Don't go to all that bother for me.

2. transitiveTo attend an event or a sight.

   We went to a concert for my birthday.

3. idiomatictransitiveTo attend classes at a school as a student.

   He went to the University of Kansas for almost two years before he dropped out.

4. transitiveTo tend to support.

   The study goes to the point I was making earlier about subsidies.

5. archaicintransitiveTo get to work; (imperatively) come on.

   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 Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges VII:3

6. archaicintransitiveUsed imperatively to express protest or surprise; "come, now!".

   Doctor: Go to, go to. You have known what you should not.

   c. 1588, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene I

   2 more examples

   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 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)

   ‘Go to! — you’re dreaming, man! — there’s no one here.’ ‘Begging your pardon, sir, but there was someone there not a minute ago.’

   1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle

plural go tos

1. capitalizedsometimescomputingThe branching construct GOTO.