Etymology

Verb form from Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#GOINGCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#GOING goinge, goynge, gayng, variants of gonde, goonde, gaand, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#GOINGCategory:English terms derived from Old English#GOING gānde, from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#GOINGCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#GOING *gēndz, present participle of Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#GOING *gēną, *gāną (“to go”), equivalent to go +‎ -ingCategory:English terms suffixed with -ing#GOING. Cognate with West Frisian geanend (“going”), Dutch gaand (“going”), German gehend (“going”), Danish gående (“going”), Swedish gående (“going”).

Noun and adjective from Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#GOINGCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#GOING going, goyng, gaing, gayng, equivalent to go +‎ -ingCategory:English terms suffixed with -ing#GOING. Compare German Gehung, Old English gang (“a going”). More at gang.

Pronunciation

• (UK)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡəʊ.ɪŋ/Category:English 2-syllable words#GOINGCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#GOING
  • (West Midlands) IPA^(key): /ˈɡuː.ɪŋ/ [ˈɡʊw.ɪŋɡ]Category:English 2-syllable words#GOINGCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#GOING
  • (Northumbria) IPA^(key): /ˈɡæn.ɪn/Category:English 2-syllable words#GOINGCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#GOING
    • (sometimes) IPA^(key): /ɡaːn/Category:English 1-syllable words#GOINGCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#GOING
• (Dublin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡʌo̞ŋ]Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#GOING
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡoʊ.ɪŋ/, /ˈɡɔɪ.ŋ/Category:English 2-syllable words#GOINGCategory:English 1-syllable words#GOINGCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#GOING

  • Audio (US):

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    Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#GOING
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈɡo.ʋɪnɡ/, /ˈɡo.jɪnɡ/, [-ɪŋɡ]Category:English 2-syllable words#GOINGCategory:English 2-syllable words#GOINGCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#GOING
• Hyphenation: go‧ing
• Rhymes: -əʊɪŋCategory:Rhymes:English/əʊɪŋ#GOING

Verb

goingCategory:English non-lemma forms#GOINGCategory:English verb forms#GOINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#GOINGCategory:Pages with entries#GOINGCategory:Pages with 1 entry#GOING

1. present participle and gerund of go

   I'm afraid I must be going.Category:English terms with usage examples#GOING

2. (in combination) Attending or visiting (a stated event, place, etc.) habitually or regularly.

   theatre-going, church-going, movie-going

Noun

going (countable and uncountable, plural goings)Category:English lemmas#GOINGCategory:English nouns#GOINGCategory:English uncountable nouns#GOINGCategory:English countable nouns#GOINGCategory:English countable nouns#GOINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#GOINGCategory:Pages with entries#GOINGCategory:Pages with 1 entry#GOING

1. A departure.
   • 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC:

     Māna-Yood-Sushāī was before the beginning of the gods, and shall be after their going. […] After the going of the gods there will be no small worlds nor big.

     Category:English terms with quotations#GOING

   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:

     But he found it strange to think […] of all these little things that cluster round the comings, and the stayings, and the goings, that he would know nothing of them, nothing of what they had been, as long as he lived, […]

     Category:English terms with quotations#GOING

2. The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc.

   The going was very difficult over the ice.Category:English terms with usage examples#GOING

3. Progress.

   We made good going for a while, but then we came to the price.Category:English terms with usage examples#GOING

4. (figurative) Conditions for advancing in any way.

   Not only were the streets not paved with gold, but the going was difficult for an immigrant.Category:English terms with usage examples#GOING

5. (in the plural) Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 34:21:

     His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.

     Category:English terms with quotations#GOING

6. (in the phrase "the going of") The whereabouts (of something).

   I can't find my sunglasses; you haven't seen the going of them, have you?Category:English terms with usage examples#GOING

7. The horizontal distance between the front of one step in a flight of stairs and the front of the next.

   Each step had a rise of 170 mm and a going of 250 mm.Category:English terms with usage examples#GOING

Adjective

going (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#GOINGCategory:English adjectives#GOINGCategory:English uncomparable adjectives#GOINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#GOINGCategory:Pages with entries#GOINGCategory:Pages with 1 entry#GOING

1. Likely to continue; viable.

   He didn't want to make an unsecured loan to the business because it didn't look like a going concern.Category:English terms with usage examples#GOING

2. Current, prevailing.

   The going rate for manual snow-shoveling is $25 an hour.Category:English terms with usage examples#GOING

3. (especially after a noun phrase with a superlative) Available.

   He has the easiest job going.Category:English terms with usage examples#GOING

   • 2013, Natalie Dormer, interview on, The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson:

     Craig: Did you look at Tudor life? did you do a lot of studying about that?
     Natalie: Yeah, I was really geeky about it, I read every single book that was going.

     Category:English terms with quotations#GOING

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References

• “going”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• oggin