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GO HOME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does go home mean?
• GO HOME (verb)
The verb GO HOME has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: GO HOME used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Return home
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
go home; head home
Context example:
After the movie, we went home
Hypernyms (to "go home" is one way to...):
return (go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Context examples
In the meantime he would go home and pack up.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
"Now shall we go home?" he asked, as if the words were very pleasant to him.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
They said therefore to each other: “What can we do here, let us go home.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
White Fang knew the meaning of "home," and though he did not understand the remainder of the master's language, he knew it was his will that he should go home.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
“And she won't go home,” he interposed, shaking his head mournfully.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Van Helsing returned in a couple of hours, and presently said to me: Now you go home, and eat much and drink enough.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
But I’ll go home with you.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I shall just go round by Mrs. Cole's; but I shall not stop three minutes: and, Jane, you had better go home directly—I would not have you out in a shower!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Airway Questionnaire 20 (AQ20) Does your chest trouble make you go home sooner than others after a night out?
(AQ20 - Chest Trouble Make You Go Home Sooner Than Others, NCI Thesaurus)
It is now ten; I must go home and read these documents in quiet; but I shall be back before midnight, when we shall send for the police.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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