Word Frequency
go back
Definitions
verb
- to return
- often foll by to to originate (in) ⇒
the links with France go back to the Norman Conquest
- foll by on to change one's mind about; repudiate (esp in the phrase go back on one's word)
- (of clocks and watches) to be set to an earlier time, as during British Summer Time ⇒
when do the clocks go back this year?
Translations for 'go back'
- British English: go back
If something goes back to a particular time in the past, it was made or started at that time.The feud goes back to the 11th century.ɡəʊ bæk VERB - Arabic: يَرْجِعُ
- Brazilian Portuguese: voltar
- Chinese: 回去
- Croatian: potjecati iz
- Czech: datovat se --do minulosti
- Danish: gå tilbage
- Dutch: teruggaan
- European Spanish: volverir
- Finnish: palata
- French: remonter
- German: zurückgehen
- Greek: ανατρέχω
- Italian: risalire
- Japanese: 戻る
- Korean: (…)로 거슬러 올라가다
- Norwegian: dra tilbake
- Polish: wrócić wracać
- Portuguese: datar
- Romanian: a data din
- Russian: брать начало
- Spanish: volverdevolverse
- Swedish: gå tillbaka
- Thai: กลับไป
- Turkish: geri gitmek
- Ukrainian: повертатися повернутися
- Vietnamese: quay lại
Example Sentences Including 'go back'
Concludes Robertson:'Once you have experienced the benefits of open-plan living, you cannot go back to cellular accommodation.Glasgow Herald (2001)
I want to protect my talent differently when I go back to work.Irish Times (2002)
Right now, you can wait on my mercenary pleasures, or you can go back to your husband.TREASON KEEP (2001)
Several times when Sally was staying here she almost didn't go back to San Francisco.BETTER THAN THIS (2002)
The problem is that the further we go back in history the fewer composers we allow to set the standard.Globe and Mail (2003)
Then go back a link or two to the Gallery of Objects, where previous objects of the month are stored.New Scientist (1999)
We go back twenty or thirty times to make sure that we did turn them off.BEYOND FEAR (2002)
We'll go back over your career -'You can't do that,' said Vokes flatly.YESTERDAY'S SHADOW (2002)
With cash running out, the entrepreneurs naturally go back to the investors to ask for more money.Glasgow Herald (2001)
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