go on

Questions about go on

What does go on mean?

go on means "continue a certain state, condition, or activity". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for go on?

Close synonyms include continue, proceed, go along, keep, happen. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of go on?

The recorded antonyms are go off.

Is go on a common word?

go on is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.