goe

See also: Goe

English

Verb

goe

  1. Archaic spelling of go.
    • 1581, anonymous author, A Treatise Of Daunses:
      Some others goe further and alledging or rather indeede abusing some peece of the Scripture [] .
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, [] (King James Version), London: [] Robert Barker, [], →OCLC, Genesis 8:15–16, columns 1–2:
      And God ſpake vnto Noah, ſaying, / Goe foorth of the Arke, thou, and thy wife, and thy ſonnes, and thy ſonnes wiues with thee: []
    • 1892, Ambrose Bierce, Black Beetles in Amber:
      With divers kinds of Riddance The smoaking Earth is wet, And all aflowe to seaward goe The Torrents wide of Sweat!

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣu/
  • Rhymes: -u

Adjective

goe (comparative beter, superlative best)

  1. (East and West Flanders) good

Synonyms

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɔ.e/
  • Rhymes: -ɔe
  • Hyphenation: gò‧e

Noun

goe f

  1. plural of goa

Anagrams

Yola

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English gon, from Old English gān, from Proto-West Germanic *gān.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɔː/
  • Homophone: gae

Verb

goe (third-person singular simple present gows, present participle goan, simple past waunt, past participle ee-go or gome)

  1. to go

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 42
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