gone.
Away, having left.
Meaning & usage
Away, having left.
Are they gone already?
No longer existing, having passed.
The days of my youth are gone.
All hopes for a truce are gone.
Used up.
I'm afraid all the coffee is gone.
If the milk is all gone, we'll drink our coffee black.
Broken, failed.
The bulb is gone. Can you put a new one in?
The car isn't driveable — the steering is gone.
Dead.
Doomed, done for.
Have you seen the company's revenue? It's through the floor. They're gone.
Not fully aware of one's surroundings, often through intoxication or mental decline.
Don't bother trying to understand what Grandma says; she's gone.
Infatuated; in love (+ on, for, in).
Excellent, wonderful; crazy.
It was a group of real gone cats.
Ago (used post-positionally).
Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.
Of an arrow: wide of the mark.
Used with a duration to indicate for how long a process has been developing, an action has been performed or a state has persisted; especially, pregnant.
She’s three months gone
Where this word comes from
From Middle English gon, igon, gan, ȝegan, from Old English gān, ġegān, from Proto-Germanic *gānaz (“gone”), past participle of *gāną (“to go”). Cognate with West Germanic Scots gane (“gone”), West Frisian gien (“gone”), Low German gahn (“gone”), and Dutch gegaan (“gone”).
Past, after, later than (a time).
You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English gon, igon, gan, ȝegan, from Old English gān, ġegān, from Proto-Germanic *gānaz (“gone”), past participle of *gāną (“to go”). Cognate with West Germanic Scots gane (“gone”), West Frisian gien (“gone”), Low German gahn (“gone”), and Dutch gegaan (“gone”).
past participle of go
Where this word comes from
From Middle English gon, igon, gan, ȝegan, from Old English gān, ġegān, from Proto-Germanic *gānaz (“gone”), past participle of *gāną (“to go”). Cognate with West Germanic Scots gane (“gone”), West Frisian gien (“gone”), Low German gahn (“gone”), and Dutch gegaan (“gone”).
Alternative spelling of gon /gon': clipping of gonna or going to.
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