go out

1. 1.

   move out of or depart from

   “leave the room”

   “the fugitive has left the country”

   Synonymsexitget outleave

   Broadermove

   Narrowergopop outfile outhop outfall outget offstep outejectundocklog out
2. 2.

   leave the house to go somewhere

   “We never went out when our children were small”

   Broaderleave

   Narrowerdate
3. 3.

   take the field

   “The soldiers went out on missions”

   Broaderleave
4. 4.

   become extinguished

   “The lights suddenly went out and we were in the dark”

   Broaderend
5. 5.

   go out of fashion; become unfashionable

   Antonymscome in

   Broaderchange

   fashion

6. 6.

   date regularly; have a steady relationship with

   “Did you know that she is seeing an older man?”

   “He is dating his former wife again!”

   Synonymsgo steadydatesee

   Broaderconsort

Questions about go out

What does go out mean?

go out means "move out of or depart from". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for go out?

Close synonyms include exit, get out, leave, go steady, date. 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 out?

The recorded antonyms are come in.

Is go out a common word?

go out 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.