If you say that two things go together, or that one thing goes togetherwith another, you mean that they go well with each other or cannot be separated from each other.
I can see that some colours go together and some don't.
Winckelmann declared that art and freedom went together.
Poverty and illiteracy go together with high birth rates.
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go together in British English
verb(intr, adverb)
1.
to be mutually suited; harmonize
the colours go well together
2. informal
(of two people) to have a romantic or sexual relationship
they had been going together for two years
go together in American English
1.
to match; harmonize
2. US, Informal
to date only each other
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Examples of 'go together' in a sentence
go together
That makes us really go together well.
The Sun (2016)
They only tell us that the two tend to go together.
Bee, Helen The Developing Child (7th edn.) (1995)
Those are two things that rarely go together.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Shrimps and peas go together almost as well as peaches and cream.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
These two things must go together to be effective.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Our voices would go together very well.
The Sun (2011)
There are some things that just go together.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
For me the two kind of go together.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
In fact, the two usually go together.
The Sun (2009)
Thirty years on, we went together to see how things had worked out.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
They're a couple of misfits who go together very well.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
These two things have gone together - they are connected.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Now, these two things often go together.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Ideally the two go together in a complex interplay, with the right in overall charge.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Reading and seeing go together.
Marcus J. Borg READING THE BIBLE AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME: Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally. (2001)
Those two things go together.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Some things inevitably go together.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
But I think they go together well.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
They were not obviously linked, and they spanned three centuries, but one felt they went together in some elusive way.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Chinese translation of 'go together'
go together
vi
[colours, clothes, foods]相配 (xiāngpèi)
See go
Nearby words of
go together
go round
go through
go through with
go together
go towards
go under
go up
All related terms of 'go together'
go without
( food, treats ) 没(沒)有 méiyǒu ...
go with
( combine well with : colours, clothes, foods ) 与(與) ... 协(協)调(調) yǔ ... xiétiáo
( person ) 离(離)开(開) líkāi ( to party, club ) 出去消遣 chūqù xiāoqiǎn ▶ to go out of 离(離)开(開) líkāi ▶ are you going out tonight? 你今晚出去吗(嗎)？ nǐ jīnwǎn chūqù ma?
go on at
( nag ) 向 ... 唠(嘮)唠(嘮)叨叨 xiàng ... láolao-dāodao
go on about
对(對) ... 唠(嘮)唠(嘮)叨叨 duì ... láolao-dāodao
go on
( continue ) 继(繼)续(續) jìxù
go off with
( run away with : lover ) 同 ... 私奔 tóng ... sībēn
go off
( esp Brit : begin to dislike : person, place, idea etc ) 不再喜欢(歡) bù zài xǐhuan
go into
( enter : building, room ) 进(進)入 jìnrù
go in for
( competition ) 参(參)加 cānjiā
go in
( enter ) 进(進)去 jìnqù
go for
( fetch ) 去取 qù qǔ
go down
( fall : price, level, amount ) 下降 xiàjiàng
go by
( vehicle, years, time ) 过(過)去 guòqù
go back to
( activity, work, school ) 回到 huídào
go back on
( promise, agreement ) 背弃(棄) bèiqì
go back
( return ) 返回 fǎnhuí
go away
( leave ) 离(離)开(開) líkāi
go around
( circulate : news, rumour ) 传(傳)播 chuánbō
go along with
( agree with : plan, idea, decision ) 赞(贊)同 zàntóng
go along
去 qù
go ahead
( take place : event ) 发(發)生 fāshēng
go against
( be unfavourable to ) 不利于(於) bù lìyú
go after
( pursue : person ) 追赶(趕) zhuīgǎn
go about
( tackle ) 处(處)理 chǔlǐ
1 (phrasal verb)
Red wine and oysters don't really go together.
Synonyms
harmonize
The music had to harmonize with the seasons.
match
Their strengths in memory and spatial skills matched.
agree
His second statement agrees with the facts.
accord
fit
She doesn't fit the description of the suspect.
make a pair
2 (phrasal verb)
We met a month ago and we've been going together ever since.
Synonyms
go out
court
I was courting him at 19 and married him when I was 21.
date (informal)
go steady (informal)
We have been going steady for almost a year now.
See go
Additional synonyms
in the sense of accord
Synonyms
agree,
match,
answer,
fit,
suit,
square,
coincide,
correspond,
tally,
conform,
chime,
harmonize
in the sense of agree
Definition
to be consistent
His second statement agrees with the facts.
Synonyms
correspond,
match,
accord,
answer,
fit,
suit,
square,
coincide,
tally,
conform,
chime,
harmonize
in the sense of court
Definition
to attempt to gain the love of
I was courting him at 19 and married him when I was 21.