Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

boldly go where no man has gone before

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.27 in modern English

Syllables: bold-ly -go where no -man has -gone be-fore
IPA

55

Scrabble Score

31

Letters

6

Syllables

15

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To break new ground.

Example Sentences

"While Strauss would not exactly be boldly going where no man has gone before if he led England to victories this year in away Test series against Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India, he set foot on an airbus to Dubai knowing that 2012 represents the last great examination of his side."
"E-Racer Based loosely upon one of the original Rutan designs, the airplane goes where no man has gone before. In the first place, the composite canard machine is the first known example of the Rutan Long-EZ clones to have"
"These were the voyages of Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton and Mawson, Nordenskjold, Borchgrevink, de Gerlache and von Drygalski, Filchner, Shirase, Bruce and Bull, national heroes most of them, who boldly went where no man had gone before."

Etymology

A line from the opening sequence of the Star Trek TV series.

Inflected Forms

boldly goes where no man has gone before (present, singular) boldly going where no man has gone before (participle, present) boldly went where no man has gone before (past) boldly gone where no man has gone before (participle, past)

Questions

What does boldly go where no man has gone before mean?: To break new ground.
Where does boldly go where no man has gone before come from?: A line from the opening sequence of the Star Trek TV series.

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