phrasal verb🧩 phrasal verb

go out

to leave the house

What it means

To leave your home, usually for a social activity like meeting friends, eating at a restaurant, or going to a club. It can also mean to date someone, or for a fire or light to stop burning.

Examples

  • We're going out for dinner tonight — want to join us?
  • She doesn't go out much during the week.
  • They've been going out for nearly two years now.
  • The candle went out as soon as I opened the window.

Where it comes from

Inseparable. In the dating sense, used with 'with': 'she's going out with Tom'. 'Go out' often implies socialising, while 'go outside' just means stepping into the open air. The 'extinguish' meaning for fires and lights has been around in English since at least the 1400s.

Related phrasal verbs

#come in#eat out#hang out#get out

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