Go

See also: Appendix:Variations of "go"

English

Etymology 1

Noun

Go (uncountable)

1. Alternative letter-case form of go (“strategic board game”).
   • 2010 March, Sander Arts, “COMPETITIVE PLAY IN STRATEGO”, in Maastricht University‎^[1], archived from the original on 3 January 2022, page vii:

     It is shown that Stratego is a complex game when compared to other games, such as chess and Hex. The game-tree complexity of 10⁵³⁵ exceeds the game-tree complexity of Go.

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁-der.

Proto-Germanic *gāną

Proto-West Germanic *gān

Old English gān

Middle English gon

English go

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English Googleinflu.

English Go

From go, likely with reference to the first two letters of Google.

Proper noun

Go

2. (computer languages) A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent programming language developed by Google.

   Synonym: Golang

   • 2021, Jon Bodner, Learning Go, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 327:

     Despite the lower priority placed on features, Go isn't a static, unchanging language. New features are adopted slowly, after much discussion and experimentation. Since the initial release of Go 1.0, there have been significant changes to the patterns that define idiomatic Go.

Derived terms

• goroutine

Anagrams

• 'og, O&G, O.G., OG, Og, og

Asturian

Proper noun

Go ?

1. initialism of Gozón

Cebuano

Etymology

From Hokkien 吳／吴 (Gô͘, Ngô͘) or 伍 (Gó͘, Ngó͘).

Proper noun

Go

1. a surname

Dutch

Noun

Go n (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. alternative letter-case form of go (“strategic board game”).
   • 2010 March, Sander Arts, “COMPETITIVE PLAY IN STRATEGO”, in Maastricht University‎^[2], archived from the original on 28 August 2026, page ix:

     Het blijkt dat Stratego een complex spel in vergelijking met andere spellen, zoals schaak en Hex. De zoekboom-complexiteit van 10⁵³⁵ is groter dan die van Go.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡo/

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

Symbol

Go

1. abbreviation of gigaoctet; GB (gigabyte)

German

Go

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡoː/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -oː

Noun

Go n

1. go (board game)

Declension

Declension of Go [sg-only, neuter, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Go
genitive	eines	des	Gos, Go
dative	einem	dem	Go
accusative	ein	das	Go

Further reading

• “Go” in Duden online
• “Go”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[3] (in German)
• “Go” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Japanese

Romanization

Go

1. Rōmaji transcription of ご

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Hokkien 吳／吴 (Gô͘, Ngô͘) or 伍 (Gó͘, Ngó͘). Doublet of Ngo, Goh, Cinco, Ng, and Wu.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɡo/ [ˈɡ̠o]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: Go

Proper noun

Go (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓ)

1. a Chinese Filipino surname from Hokkien

Related terms

• Gokongwei
• Gosiengfiao
• Gotamco
• Gotianun

See also

• Gozon