going

Meanings

Verb

• Present participle of go
• Attending or visiting (a stated event, place, etc.) habitually or regularly.

Noun

• A departure.
• The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc.
• Progress.
• Conditions for advancing in any way.
• Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways.
• The whereabouts (of something).
• The horizontal distance between the front of one step in a flight of stairs and the front of the next.

Adjective

• Likely to continue; viable.
• Current, prevailing.
• Available.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• downgoing
• easygoing
• ocean-going
• on-going
• seagoing
• thoroughgoing
• upgoing

Origin

• Verb form from Middle English goinge, goynge, gayng, variants of gonde, goonde, gaand, from Old English gānde, from Proto-Germanic *gēndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *gēną, *gāną, equivalent to go + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian geanend, Dutch gaand, German gehend, Danish gående, Swedish gående.
• Noun and adjective from Middle English going, goyng, gaing, gayng, equivalent to go + -ing. Compare German Gehung, Old English gang. More at gang.