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gone
English
Etymology
From Middle English gon, igon, gan, ?egan, from Old English g?n, ?eg?n, from Proto-Germanic *g?naz (“gone”), past participle of *g?n? (“to go”). Cognate with West Germanic Scots gane (“gone”), West Frisian gien (“gone”), Low German gahn (“gone”), Dutch gegaan (“gone”) and German gegangen (“gone”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: g?n, IPA(key): /??n/,
- (Received Pronunciation, dated) enPR: gôn, IPA(key): /???n/
- Rhymes: -?n
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /???n/
- Rhymes: -??n
- (General American) IPA(key): /??n/, enPR: gôn
- (General American) (cot–caught merger, traditional New York City) IPA(key): /??n/, enPR: g?n
- Rhymes: -??n
Verb
gone
- past participle of go
- Alternative spelling of gon or gon': short for gonna, going to.
Adjective
gone (not comparable)
- Away, having left.
- Are they gone already?
- No longer existing, having passed.
- The days of my youth are gone.
- All the little shops that used to be here are now gone.
- Used up.
- I'm afraid all the coffee's gone at the moment.
- Dead.
- Doomed, done for.
- Have you seen the company's revenue? It's through the floor. They're gone.
- (colloquial) Not fully aware of one's surroundings, often through intoxication or mental decline.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 41:
- ...she put on a kind of sing-song voice whenever she was pissed, it was one of the signs that she was really gone...
- Don't bother trying to understand what Grandma says; she's gone.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 41:
- (slang) Entirely given up to; infatuated with; used with on.
- He's totally gone on her.
- (informal, US, dated) Excellent; wonderful.
- It was a group of real gone cats.
- (archaic) Ago (used post-positionally).
- 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 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.
- 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 491:
- (US) Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.
- Of an arrow: wide of the mark.
Translations
Preposition
gone
- (Britain, informal) Past, after, later than (a time).
- You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock.
Derived terms
- far gone
- Gonesville
- goner
- yesterday is gone
References
- gone at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- ENGO, Geno, Goen, NGEO, Onge, geno, geno-, geon, oneg
Fijian
Noun
gone
- child
French
Alternative forms
- gône
Etymology
Apparently from Franco-Provençal gonet.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?on/
Noun
gone m (plural gones)
- (Lyon dialect) kid (child)
- Synonyms: enfant, gosse
Further reading
- “gone” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English guma.
Noun
gone
- Alternative form of gome (“man”)
Etymology 2
From Old English g?n, ?eg?n.
Verb
gone
- Alternative form of gon (“gone”)
Plautdietsch
Verb
gone (3rd person present jeit, past jinkj, past participle jegone)
- to walk
- to go, to move
- to proceed
- (baking, of dough) to rise
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gons
English
Noun
gons
- plural of gon
Anagrams
- NGOs, NGSO, Ngos, Song, nogs, snog, song
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?ns
Verb
gons
- first-person singular present indicative of gonzen
- imperative of gonzen
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