"go home" meaning in English

See go home in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: goes home [present, singular, third-person], going home [participle, present], went home [past], gone home [participle, past]
Rhymes: -əʊm Head templates: {{en-verb|go<goes,,went,gone> home}} go home (third-person singular simple present goes home, present participle going home, simple past went home, past participle gone home)
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, home. To return to one's house. Derived forms: go hard or go home, take one's ball and go home Related terms: get home Translations (return to one's house): ҡайтыу (qaytıw) (Bashkir), өйгә ҡайтыу (öygə qaytıw) (Bashkir), 轉厝 [Hokkien] (Chinese), 转厝 (tńg-chhù) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 返屋企 (faan¹ uk¹ kei²) (Chinese Cantonese), 回家 (huíjiā) (Chinese Mandarin), mennä kotiin (Finnish), rentrer (French), regagner ses pénates (French), angerlarpoq (Greenlandic), hazamegy (Hungarian), 帰る (kaeru) (alt: かえる) (Japanese), ir embora (Portuguese), hanpuy (Quechua), вернуться домой (vernutʹsja domoj) (Russian), прийти домой (prijti domoj) (Russian), gå hem (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-go_home-en-verb-IgscEJ8U Disambiguation of "return to one's house": 100 0 0
  2. (euphemistic) To die. Tags: euphemistic Synonyms (to die): pass away, pass, cross over, go to be with the Lord Translations (euphemism: to die): үлеү (ülew) (Bashkir), китеү (kitew) (Bashkir), 回去 (huíqù) [Taiwan] (Chinese Mandarin), nukkua pois (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-go_home-en-verb-jx6TKsZL Categories (other): English euphemisms Disambiguation of 'to die': 0 100 0 Disambiguation of 'euphemism: to die': 0 98 2
  3. (euphemistic) To be eliminated in a competition. Tags: euphemistic
    Sense id: en-go_home-en-verb-7L9kbvGF Categories (other): English euphemisms, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 15 58

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for go home meaning in English (5.2kB)

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          "text": "Your mother called. She wants you to go home at 10:00."
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          "lang": "Greenlandic",
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "return to one's house",
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          "alt": "かえる",
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          "sense": "return to one's house",
          "word": "帰る"
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          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
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          "sense": "return to one's house",
          "word": "ir embora"
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          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
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          "word": "вернуться домой"
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          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
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        "(euphemistic) To be eliminated in a competition."
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      "word": "take one's ball and go home"
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      "sense": "to die",
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      "sense": "to die",
      "word": "go to be with the Lord"
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      "code": "ba",
      "lang": "Bashkir",
      "roman": "qaytıw",
      "sense": "return to one's house",
      "word": "ҡайтыу"
    },
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      "code": "ba",
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      "sense": "return to one's house",
      "word": "өйгә ҡайтыу"
    },
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      "code": "yue",
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      "roman": "faan¹ uk¹ kei²",
      "sense": "return to one's house",
      "word": "返屋企"
    },
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      "code": "nan-hbl",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "sense": "return to one's house",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "轉厝"
    },
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      "code": "nan-hbl",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "roman": "tńg-chhù",
      "sense": "return to one's house",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "转厝"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "huíjiā",
      "sense": "return to one's house",
      "word": "回家"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "return to one's house",
      "word": "mennä kotiin"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "return to one's house",
      "word": "rentrer"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "return to one's house",
      "word": "regagner ses pénates"
    },
    {
      "code": "kl",
      "lang": "Greenlandic",
      "sense": "return to one's house",
      "word": "angerlarpoq"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "return to one's house",
      "word": "hazamegy"
    },
    {
      "alt": "かえる",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kaeru",
      "sense": "return to one's house",
      "word": "帰る"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "return to one's house",
      "word": "ir embora"
    },
    {
      "code": "qu",
      "lang": "Quechua",
      "sense": "return to one's house",
      "word": "hanpuy"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vernutʹsja domoj",
      "sense": "return to one's house",
      "word": "вернуться домой"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prijti domoj",
      "sense": "return to one's house",
      "word": "прийти домой"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "return to one's house",
      "word": "gå hem"
    },
    {
      "code": "ba",
      "lang": "Bashkir",
      "roman": "ülew",
      "sense": "euphemism: to die",
      "word": "үлеү"
    },
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      "code": "ba",
      "lang": "Bashkir",
      "roman": "kitew",
      "sense": "euphemism: to die",
      "word": "китеү"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "huíqù",
      "sense": "euphemism: to die",
      "tags": [
        "Taiwan"
      ],
      "word": "回去"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "euphemism: to die",
      "word": "nukkua pois"
    }
  ],
  "word": "go home"
}

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