GO PAST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does go past mean? 

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

1. move past

2. be superior or better than some standard

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GO PAST (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move past

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

go by; go past; pass; pass by; surpass; travel by

Context example:

One line of soldiers surpassed the other

Hypernyms (to "go past" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

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

skirt (pass around or about; move along the border)

run by (pass by while running)

fly by (pass by while flying)

fly by; whisk by; zip by (move by very quickly)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

These cars won't go past

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be superior or better than some standard

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

exceed; go past; overstep; pass; top; transcend

Context example:

She topped her performance of last year

Hypernyms (to "go past" is one way to...):

excel; stand out; surpass (distinguish oneself)

Sentence frames:

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

 Context examples 

I did not go past the doorway, however, for undue preference gives rise to jealousy.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Whole weeks would pass, and not one of them go past the garden gate.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Why, Mr. Holmes, you’ll hardly believe it, but ever since that girl has been in my employment I never once let her go past this house, where I knew the rascals were lurking, without following her on my bicycle, just to see that she came to no harm.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)