goes
plural of “go” — a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
An inflected form of go · plural.
How often you will meet it
Rank 759 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 24,778 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.012% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else) also: spell, tour, turn it's my goa spell of work
- street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine also: Adam, ecstasy, XTC, disco biscuit, cristal, X
- a usually brief attempt also: crack, fling, pass, whirl, offer he took a crack at itI gave it a whirl
- a board game for two players who place counters on a grid; the object is to surround and so capture the opponent's counters also: go game
goes in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Yet more goes to explain what he was and what he did.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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This well goes with two buckets: I must tend The pouring out of either.
The White Devil · John Webster · Chapter 1
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The nurse goes from house to house, doing what she can in a little time.
Gloria and Treeless Street · Annie Hamilton Donnell · Chapter 1
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As time goes on, he becomes more and more anecdotically experienced, and, if possible, even less actual.
Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1
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She was a woman of good blood and of good education, as the education of such women goes.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1