GO FORTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does go forth mean? 

• GO FORTH (verb)
  The verb GO FORTH has 2 senses:

1. go away from a place

2. come out of

  Familiarity information: GO FORTH used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GO FORTH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Go away from a place

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

go away; go forth; leave

Context example:

The ship leaves at midnight

Verb group:

exit; get out; go out; leave (move out of or depart from)

depart; leave; pull up stakes (remove oneself from an association with or participation in)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go forth"):

abandon; empty; vacate (leave behind empty; move out of)

slip away; sneak away; sneak off; sneak out; steal away (leave furtively and stealthily)

break away; bunk; escape; fly the coop; head for the hills; hightail it; lam; run; run away; scarper; scat; take to the woods; turn tail (flee; take to one's heels; cut and run)

rush away; rush off (depart in a hurry)

get out; pull out (move out or away)

depart; part; set forth; set off; set out; start; start out; take off (leave)

linger; tarry (leave slowly and hesitantly)

go out (take the field)

ride away; ride off (ride away on a horse, for example)

beetle off; bolt; bolt out; run off; run out (leave suddenly and as if in a hurry)

bugger off; buzz off; fuck off; get; scram (leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form)

decamp; skip; vamoose (leave suddenly)

come away (leave in a certain condition)

walk out (leave abruptly, often in protest or anger)

walk away; walk off (go away from)

pop off (leave quickly)

depart; quit; take leave (go away or leave)

desert (leave behind)

go out (leave the house to go somewhere)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Come out of

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

come forth; come out; egress; emerge; go forth; issue

Context example:

The words seemed to come out by themselves

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go forth"):

radiate (issue or emerge in rays or waves)

leak (enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure)

escape (issue or leak, as from a small opening)

fall (come out; issue)

debouch (pass out or emerge; especially of rivers)

come out; fall out (come off)

pop out (come out suddenly or forcefully)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

Something must speedily be resolved upon, and it occurred to us at last to go forth together and seek help in the neighbouring hamlet.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Then will I go forth and learn how to shudder, and then I shall, at any rate, understand one art which will support me.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Never did boys of his tender age go forth to hunt, much less to hunt alone.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I have known him, on reading something in the newspaper that might apply to her, take up his stick, and go forth on a journey of three—or four-score miles.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His voice broke a little, and he went on with a voice full of pity:—But, I beseech you, do not go forth in anger with me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was a simple affair, now, to go forth in the morning and return by noon with a boatload of seals.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Here are trees about us, and I see them because I think I see them, but if I have swooned, or sleep, or am in wine, then, my thought having gone forth from me, lo the trees go forth also.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And now, said he, to settle what remains. Will you be wise? will you be guided? will you suffer me to take this glass in my hand and to go forth from your house without further parley? or has the greed of curiosity too much command of you?

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

My world had for some years been in Lowood: my experience had been of its rules and systems; now I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

For a long time I could not conceive how one man could go forth to murder his fellow, or even why there were laws and governments; but when I heard details of vice and bloodshed, my wonder ceased and I turned away with disgust and loathing.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)