gone
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Definition of gone
16 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (form-of, participle, past)past participle of go
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verb
- (form-of, participle, past)past participle of go
adj
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Away, having left.
“Are they gone already?”
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No longer existing, having passed.
“The days of my youth are gone.”
“All the little shops that used to be here are now gone.”
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Used up.
“I'm afraid all the coffee is gone.”
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Broken, failed.
“The bulb is gone. Can you put a new one in?”
“The car isn't driveable — the steering is gone.”
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Dead.
“Dust, that a breath could blow aside, yet that was once, like ourselves, animate with hope, passion, and sorrow, is below; around are the vain memorials of human grief and human pride; yet all alike dedicated to the gone.”
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Doomed, done for.
“Have you seen the company's revenue? It's through the floor. They're gone.”
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(colloquial)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.”
“[S]he put on a kind of sing-song voice whenever she was pissed, it was one of the signs that she was really gone[…].”
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(slang)Infatuated; in love (+ on, for, in).
“I am, of course, ‘gone’ for you.”
“But he was pleased and happy and flattered. She was evidently frightfully gone on him.”
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(US, dated, informal)Excellent, wonderful; crazy.
“It was a group of real gone cats.”
““All right, all right, don’t drop your gold all over the place. I have found the gonest little girl in the world and I am going straight to the Lion’s Den with her tonight.””
“Dad, I want to be a jock. All a jock needs is some hep patter and a real gone image. Now, they just don't teach that jazz in college.”
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(archaic)Ago (used post-positionally).
“Six nights gone, your brother fell upon my uncle Stafford, encamped with his host at a village called Oxcross not three days ride from Casterly Rock.”
- (US)Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.
- Of an arrow: wide of the mark.
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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”
prep
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(British, informal)Past, after, later than (a time).
“You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock.”
contraction
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(alt-of, alternative, contraction)Alternative spelling of gon /gon': clipping of gonna or going to.
“Take or be taken. Get yours or get got. It was the code of the streets and I'd lived by it. The way things was looking, I was prolly gone die by it too.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
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”).
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