go past

1. 1.

   move past

   “A black limousine passed by when she looked out the window”

   “He passed his professor in the hall”

   “One line of soldiers surpassed the other”

   Synonymstravel bypass bysurpassgo bypass

   Broadertravel

   Narrowerskirtrun byfly byzip by
2. 2.

   be superior or better than some standard

   “She exceeded our expectations”

   “She topped her performance of last year”

   Synonymsexceedtranscendoversteppasstop

   Broaderexcel

Questions about go past

What does go past mean?

go past means "move past". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for go past?

Close synonyms include travel by, pass by, surpass, go by, pass. 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.

Is go past a common word?

go past is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.