going

1. 1.

   in full operation

   “a going concern”

   Similaractive

Other forms of going

plural

goings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about going

What does going mean?

going means "the act of departing". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in going?

going has 2 syllables: go-ing. The stress falls on "go". In IPA it is /ˈɡoʊɪŋ/.

What is another word for going?

Close synonyms include departure, going away, leaving, passing, loss. 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 going a common word?

going 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.

What rhymes with going?

8 words rhyme with going. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.