go on

— Phrasal Verb with go

/gəʊ/ verb [I] (present participle going, past tense went, past participle gone)

Definition

LAST › to last for a particular period of time: The film seemed to go on forever.

CONTINUE › to continue doing something: [+ doing sth] We can't go on living like this.

go on to do sth › to do something else in the future: He went on to win the final.

HAPPEN › to happen: What's going on?

TALK UK › to talk in an annoying way about something for a long time: I wish she'd stop going on about her boyfriend.

TALK AGAIN › to start talking again after stopping for a short time: He paused and then went on with his story.

Go on informal › something that you say to encourage someone to do something: Go on, what happened next?

(Definition of go on from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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