"going" meaning in English

See going in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈɡəʊɪŋ/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈɡoʊɪŋ/ [General-American], /ˈɡɔɪŋ/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-going.ogg
Rhymes: -əʊɪŋ Etymology: Verb form from Middle English goinge, goynge, gayng, variants of gonde, goonde, gaand, from Old English gānde, from Proto-Germanic *gēndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *gēną, *gāną (“to go”), equivalent to go + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian geanend (“going”), Dutch gaand (“going”), German gehend (“going”), Danish gående (“going”), Swedish gående (“going”). Noun and adjective from Middle English going, goyng, gaing, gayng, equivalent to go + -ing. Compare German Gehung, Old English gang (“a going”). More at gang. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|goinge}} Middle English goinge, {{inh|en|ang|gānde}} Old English gānde, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*gēndz}} Proto-Germanic *gēndz, {{der|en|gem-pro|*gēną}} Proto-Germanic *gēną, {{suffix|en|go|ing}} go + -ing, {{cog|fy|geanend|t=going}} West Frisian geanend (“going”), {{cog|nl|gaand|t=going}} Dutch gaand (“going”), {{cog|de|gehend|t=going}} German gehend (“going”), {{cog|da|gående|t=going}} Danish gående (“going”), {{cog|sv|gående|t=going}} Swedish gående (“going”), {{inh|en|enm|going}} Middle English going, {{af|en|go|-ing}} go + -ing, {{cog|de|Gehung}} German Gehung, {{cog|ang|gang|t=a going}} Old English gang (“a going”) Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} going (not comparable)
  1. Likely to continue; viable. Tags: not-comparable Translations (likely to continue; viable): mahdollinen (Finnish), realny (Polish)
    Sense id: en-going-en-adj-AZzfQo9r Disambiguation of 'likely to continue; viable': 98 1 1
  2. Current, prevailing. Tags: not-comparable Translations (current, prevailing): nykyinen (Finnish), geltend (German), aktuális (Hungarian), bieżący (Polish)
    Sense id: en-going-en-adj-8hIyyP2d Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ing, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Ingrian translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Sanskrit translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 32 2 3 4 4 13 21 1 9 1 4 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ing: 8 26 2 6 8 10 10 12 2 9 1 8 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 7 36 2 2 5 10 10 14 2 7 1 4 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 9 39 3 3 4 8 6 17 1 7 1 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 5 46 1 1 2 7 13 18 1 3 0 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 6 37 4 2 4 9 9 9 2 7 3 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 6 37 4 2 4 9 9 9 2 7 3 8 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 6 38 5 2 4 8 9 10 2 8 3 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 9 34 4 6 5 8 8 8 2 8 3 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Ingrian translations: 8 41 2 2 4 13 9 10 2 6 1 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 5 44 2 2 4 8 11 11 2 7 1 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 7 32 4 4 4 10 8 8 1 8 2 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Sanskrit translations: 7 38 4 2 4 9 9 10 2 8 3 5 Disambiguation of 'current, prevailing': 2 98 1
  3. (especially after a noun phrase with a superlative) Available. Tags: especially, not-comparable Translations (available): mitä on (Finnish), dostępny (Polish)
    Sense id: en-going-en-adj-z~kF7dRq Disambiguation of 'available': 1 0 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hyponyms: downgoing, easygoing, ocean-going, on-going, seagoing, thoroughgoing, upgoing Related terms: going to

Noun

IPA: /ˈɡəʊɪŋ/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈɡoʊɪŋ/ [General-American], /ˈɡɔɪŋ/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-going.ogg Forms: goings [plural]
Rhymes: -əʊɪŋ Etymology: Verb form from Middle English goinge, goynge, gayng, variants of gonde, goonde, gaand, from Old English gānde, from Proto-Germanic *gēndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *gēną, *gāną (“to go”), equivalent to go + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian geanend (“going”), Dutch gaand (“going”), German gehend (“going”), Danish gående (“going”), Swedish gående (“going”). Noun and adjective from Middle English going, goyng, gaing, gayng, equivalent to go + -ing. Compare German Gehung, Old English gang (“a going”). More at gang. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|goinge}} Middle English goinge, {{inh|en|ang|gānde}} Old English gānde, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*gēndz}} Proto-Germanic *gēndz, {{der|en|gem-pro|*gēną}} Proto-Germanic *gēną, {{suffix|en|go|ing}} go + -ing, {{cog|fy|geanend|t=going}} West Frisian geanend (“going”), {{cog|nl|gaand|t=going}} Dutch gaand (“going”), {{cog|de|gehend|t=going}} German gehend (“going”), {{cog|da|gående|t=going}} Danish gående (“going”), {{cog|sv|gående|t=going}} Swedish gående (“going”), {{inh|en|enm|going}} Middle English going, {{af|en|go|-ing}} go + -ing, {{cog|de|Gehung}} German Gehung, {{cog|ang|gang|t=a going}} Old English gang (“a going”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} going (countable and uncountable, plural goings)
  1. A departure. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (departure): lähtö (Finnish), meno (Finnish), ida [feminine] (Galician), mänö (Ingrian), odejście (english: on foot) [neuter] (Polish), odjazd (english: by vehicle) [masculine] (Polish), odlot (note: in the air) [masculine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-going-en-noun-TgGuHJHD Disambiguation of 'departure': 92 1 3 1 2 0 2
  2. The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-going-en-noun-IXpgORFY
  3. Progress. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (progress): edistys (Finnish), meno (Finnish), Fortschritt [masculine] (German), itio [feminine] (Latin), postęp [masculine] (Polish), यामन् (yāman) [neuter] (Sanskrit)
    Sense id: en-going-en-noun-0IoX5j5S Disambiguation of 'progress': 1 1 94 1 0 0 2
  4. (figurative) Conditions for advancing in any way. Tags: countable, figuratively, uncountable Translations (conditions for advancing): meno (Finnish), Weiterkommen [neuter] (German), warunki [masculine, plural] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-going-en-noun-9AHrJRq7 Disambiguation of 'conditions for advancing': 1 3 7 79 4 0 5
  5. (in the plural) Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways. Tags: countable, in-plural, uncountable Translations (course of life, doings, ways): meno (Finnish), sposoby [masculine, plural] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-going-en-noun-ESp4x-d8 Disambiguation of 'course of life, doings, ways': 4 1 1 4 90 0 0
  6. (in the phrase "the going of") The whereabouts (of something). Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-going-en-noun-S8NPIWEs
  7. The horizontal distance between the front of one step in a flight of stairs and the front of the next. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-going-en-noun-~uoUHLNe
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: hard going, going, going, gone

Verb

IPA: /ˈɡəʊɪŋ/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈɡoʊɪŋ/ [General-American], /ˈɡɔɪŋ/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-going.ogg
Rhymes: -əʊɪŋ Etymology: Verb form from Middle English goinge, goynge, gayng, variants of gonde, goonde, gaand, from Old English gānde, from Proto-Germanic *gēndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *gēną, *gāną (“to go”), equivalent to go + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian geanend (“going”), Dutch gaand (“going”), German gehend (“going”), Danish gående (“going”), Swedish gående (“going”). Noun and adjective from Middle English going, goyng, gaing, gayng, equivalent to go + -ing. Compare German Gehung, Old English gang (“a going”). More at gang. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|goinge}} Middle English goinge, {{inh|en|ang|gānde}} Old English gānde, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*gēndz}} Proto-Germanic *gēndz, {{der|en|gem-pro|*gēną}} Proto-Germanic *gēną, {{suffix|en|go|ing}} go + -ing, {{cog|fy|geanend|t=going}} West Frisian geanend (“going”), {{cog|nl|gaand|t=going}} Dutch gaand (“going”), {{cog|de|gehend|t=going}} German gehend (“going”), {{cog|da|gående|t=going}} Danish gående (“going”), {{cog|sv|gående|t=going}} Swedish gående (“going”), {{inh|en|enm|going}} Middle English going, {{af|en|go|-ing}} go + -ing, {{cog|de|Gehung}} German Gehung, {{cog|ang|gang|t=a going}} Old English gang (“a going”) Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} going
  1. present participle and gerund of go Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: go
    Sense id: en-going-en-verb-ZMDcX5hD
  2. (in combination) Attending or visiting (a stated event, place, etc.) habitually or regularly. Tags: in-compounds Translations (attending habitually or regularly): käyvä (Finnish), chodzący (Polish)
    Sense id: en-going-en-verb-HfR53BgL Disambiguation of 'attending habitually or regularly': 1 99

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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}

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          "ref": "1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "Māna-Yood-Sushāī was before the beginning of the gods, and shall be after their going. […] After the going of the gods there will be no small worlds nor big.",
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          "text": "The going was very difficult over the ice.",
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          "text": "We made good going for a while, but then we came to the price.",
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          "text": "Not only were the streets not paved with gold, but the going was difficult for an immigrant.",
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        "(figurative) Conditions for advancing in any way."
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          "ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 34:21:",
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        "(in the plural) Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways."
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "departure",
      "word": "lähtö"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "english": "on foot",
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      "word": "Fortschritt"
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      "word": "itio"
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      "code": "sa",
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      "roman": "yāman",
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      "word": "यामन्"
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}

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      "word": "downgoing"
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    {
      "word": "easygoing"
    },
    {
      "word": "ocean-going"
    },
    {
      "word": "on-going"
    },
    {
      "word": "seagoing"
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      "word": "thoroughgoing"
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        {
          "text": "He didn't want to make an unsecured loan to the business because it didn't look like a going concern.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
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        {
          "text": "The going rate for manual snow-shoveling is $25 an hour.",
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        "Current, prevailing."
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        {
          "text": "He has the easiest job going.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Natalie Dormer, interview on, The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson:",
          "text": "Craig: Did you look at Tudor life? did you do a lot of studying about that?\nNatalie: Yeah, I was really geeky about it, I read every single book that was going.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Available."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(especially after a noun phrase with a superlative) Available."
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        "after a noun phrase with a superlative"
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        "especially",
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      "ipa": "/ˈɡəʊɪŋ/",
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        "Received-Pronunciation"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡoʊɪŋ/",
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        "General-American"
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      "ipa": "/ˈɡɔɪŋ/",
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "likely to continue; viable",
      "word": "mahdollinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "likely to continue; viable",
      "word": "realny"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "current, prevailing",
      "word": "nykyinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "current, prevailing",
      "word": "geltend"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "current, prevailing",
      "word": "aktuális"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "current, prevailing",
      "word": "bieżący"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "available",
      "word": "mitä on"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "available",
      "word": "dostępny"
    }
  ],
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    "going"
  ],
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.