gone

Meaning

Verb

past participle of go

Adj

1. Away, having left.
2. No longer existing, having passed.
3. Used up.
4. Broken, failed.
5. Dead.
6. Doomed, done for.
7. (colloquial) Not fully aware of one's surroundings, often through intoxication or mental decline.
8. (slang) Infatuated; in love (+ on, for, in).
9. (US, dated, informal) Excellent, wonderful; crazy.
10. (archaic) Ago (used post-positionally).
11. (US) Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.
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.

Prep

Past, after, later than (a time).

Contraction

Alternative spelling of gon /gon': clipping of gonna or going to.

go

• Verb
• Noun
• Adj
• Noun

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Synonyms

departed

past

away

lost

absent

finished

vanished

done for

bygone

deceased

foregone

ago

approached

left

dead

💀

bypast

over

missing

off

disappeared

disappear

used up

passed over

awhile

at rest

since olden times

at peace

passed

removed

elapsed

asleep

kaput

leave

die

💀

devoid

beyond

despondent

desperate

beat

departure

fled

finish

demise

defunct

abated

finis

finale

fallen

faded

ex

Translations

gegangen

fort

zoek

ido

fini

perdu

allé

weg

absent

φευγάτος

verloren

abwesend

parti

verbraucht

vorüber

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡɒn/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: gon

Inherited from Old English: gān

Cognate with Scots: gane

Cognate with Western Frisian: gien

Cognate with Low German: gahn

Cognate with Dutch: gegaan

In summary

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”).

Sentences

But she is gone .

Looking down at the spoon he held , the boy saw that the oil was gone .

The pirates gone , the villagers later settled in what are now Baras.