Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

go home

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.61 in modern English

Syllables: go home
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To die.

verb

To be eliminated in a competition.

verb

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, home. To return to one's house.

Example Sentences

"Louis went home at around 2:30 yesterday."
"Hellriegel's program tells him who is receiving a lot of votes (long periods of busy signals) and who is not (easy to ring through), and the website tells viewers who is most likely to go home – rather than who is most likely to stay."
"Your mother called. She wants you to go home at 10:00."

Inflected Forms

goes home (present, singular) going home (participle, present) went home (past) gone home (participle, past)

Phrases

go big or go home go hard or go home take one's ball and go home get home

Frequently Paired Words

get home

Synonyms

pass away pass cross over go to be with the Lord head home

Rhymes With

home come home group home rome poem dome chrome foam rom genome jerome om

Questions

What does go home mean?: To die.

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