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Wiktionary

noun

  1. The branching construct GOTO.

verb

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

    All the jewelry went to her heirs.

    Don't go to all that bother for me.

  2. To attend an event or a sight.

    We went to a concert for my birthday.

  3. 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. To tend to support.

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

  5. To 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.

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

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

    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!”