See also: -gone, góneʼ, and gɔnɛ̀

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

gone

  1. past participle of go

Adjective

gone (comparative further gone or farther gone or goner, superlative furthest gone or farthest gone or gonest)

  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.
    All the little shops that used to be here are now gone.
    • 1979, Earth, Wind & Fire, “Boogie Wonderland”, in I Am:
      All the love in the world can't be gone / All the need to be loved can't be wrong / All the records are playing and my heart keeps saying / "Boogie Wonderland, Wonderland"
  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.
    • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Marriage”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 221:
      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.
  6. Doomed, done for.
    Have you seen the company's revenue? It's through the floor. They're gone.
  7. (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.
    • 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section III, page 28:
      [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 […] .
  8. (slang) Infatuated; in love (+ on, for, in).
  9. (informal, US, dated) Excellent, wonderful; crazy.
    It was a group of real gone cats.
    • 1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, chapter 11, in On the Road, London: Penguin Books, published 1976, →ISBN, part 1, page 61:
      “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.”
    • 1975, Garry Marshall et al., “Richie's Flip Side”, in Happy Days, season 2, episode 21, spoken by Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard):
      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.
  10. (archaic) Ago (used post-positionally).
    • 1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 491:
      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.
  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.
    She’s three months gone
Translations

Preposition

gone

  1. (UK, informal) Past, after, later than (a time).
    You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Contraction

gone

  1. Alternative spelling of gon / gon': clipping of gonna or going to.
    • 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 24:
      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.

References

  • “gone”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

Fijian

Etymology

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Noun

gone

  1. child (a minor)
    Era sa moce tiko na gone.
    The children are sleeping.
  2. child, offspring, young (son or daughter; someone's child)
    E vica na nomu gone?
    How many children do you have?
  3. pupil, student, learner (person enrolled at an education institution)
    Synonym: gonevuli
    Era mai lako mai na gone ni koronivuli.
    The pupils from school are coming.

Adjective

gone

  1. young, youthful, juvenile
    Na itei gone e sa tubu vinaka.
    The young plants are growing well.
    O iko e gone vei au.
    You are younger than me.

Derived terms

References

  • Gatty, Ronald (2009), “gone”, in Fijian–English Dictionary‎[1], Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty, →ISBN, page 90

French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Apparently from Franco-Provençal gonet.

Pronunciation

Noun

gone m (plural gones)

  1. (Lyon dialect) kid (child)
    Synonyms: enfant, gosse

Further reading

Middle English

Etymology 1

    Noun

    gone

    1. alternative form of gome (“man”)

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    gone

    1. alternative form of gon (“gone”)

    Yola

    Verb

    gone

    1. alternative form of goan
      • 1867, “GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY“, page 42:
        Gone to glaade.
        After it is set.

    References

    • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 42
    source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gone