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gone.

Away, having left.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ɡɒn/Received-Pronunciation/ɡɔːn/Australia, Multicultural-London-English, Received-Pronunciation, archaic/ɡɔn/General-American/ɡɑn/New-York-City, cot-caught-merger, traditional
  1. Away, having left.

    Are they gone already?
  2. No longer existing, having passed.

    The days of my youth are gone.
    All hopes for a truce are gone.
  3. Used up.

    I'm afraid all the coffee is gone.
    If the milk is all gone, we'll drink our coffee black.
  4. Broken, failed.

    The bulb is gone. Can you put a new one in?
    The car isn't driveable — the steering is gone.
  5. Dead.

  6. Doomed, done for.

    Have you seen the company's revenue? It's through the floor. They're gone.
  7. Not fully aware of one's surroundings, often through intoxication or mental decline.

    colloquial
    Don't bother trying to understand what Grandma says; she's gone.
  8. Infatuated; in love (+ on, for, in).

    slang
  9. Excellent, wonderful; crazy.

    US · dated · informal
    It was a group of real gone cats.
  10. Ago (used post-positionally).

    archaic
  11. Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.

    US
  12. Of an arrow: wide of the mark.

  13. 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”).

prep/ɡɒn/Received-Pronunciation/ɡɔːn/Australia, Multicultural-London-English, Received-Pronunciation, archaic/ɡɔn/General-American/ɡɑn/New-York-City, cot-caught-merger, traditional
  1. Past, after, later than (a time).

    UK · informal
    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”).

verb/ɡɒn/Received-Pronunciation/ɡɔːn/Australia, Multicultural-London-English, Received-Pronunciation, archaic/ɡɔn/General-American/ɡɑn/New-York-City, cot-caught-merger, traditional
  1. past participle of go

    form-of · participle · past
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”).

contraction/ɡɒn/Received-Pronunciation/ɡɔːn/Australia, Multicultural-London-English, Received-Pronunciation, archaic/ɡɔn/General-American/ɡɑn/New-York-City, cot-caught-merger, traditional
  1. Alternative spelling of gon /gon': clipping of gonna or going to.

    alt-of · alternative · contraction
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