going

Meanings

1. present participle and gerund of go
2. Attending or visiting (a stated event, place, etc.) habitually or regularly.

1. A departure.
2. The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc.
3. Progress.
4. Conditions for advancing in any way.
5. Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways.
6. The whereabouts (of something).
7. The horizontal distance between the front of one step in a flight of stairs and the front of the next.

1. Likely to continue; viable.
2. Current, prevailing.
3. Available.

1. A surname.

Etymology

Verb form from Middle English goinge, goynge, gayng, variants of gonde, goonde, gaand, from Old English gānde, from Proto-Germanic *gēndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *gēną, *gāną (“to go”), equivalent to go + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian geanend (“going”), Dutch gaand (“going”), German gehend (“going”), Danish gående (“going”), Swedish gående (“going”). Noun and adjective from Middle English going, goyng, gaing, gayng, equivalent to go + -ing. Compare German Gehung, Old English gang (“a going”). More at gang.