gone

See also góneʼ

English

Alternative forms

• ywent (obsolete verb form)

Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: gŏn, IPA: /ɡɒn/, SAMPA: /gQn/
• Rhymes: -ɒn
• (GenAm) IPA: /ɡɔn/, SAMPA: /gQ:n/
• (GenAm) often IPA: /ɡɑn/, SAMPA: /gAn/

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Verb

gone

1. Past participle of go

Derived terms

• all gone
• goner

Adjective

gone (not generally comparable; )

1. Away, having left.

   Are they gone already?

2. No longer existing, having passed.

   The days of my youth are gone.

3. Used up.

   I'm afraid all the coffee's gone at the moment.

4. intoxicated to the point of being unaware of one's surroundings

   Dude, look at Jack. He's completely gone.

5. dead
6. 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.’

Preposition

gone

1. (UK, informal) Past, after, later than (a time).

   You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock.

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: along · four · wish · #328: gone · times · girl · during

Anagrams

• geon

Translations

Translations

Spanish: ido (es), llevado (es), desaparecido (es) m., quitado (es), separado (es), faltando (es), abulido (es)

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Fijian

Noun

gone

1. child

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French

Etymology

Apparently from Franco-Provençal.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /gon/

Noun

gone m. (plural gones)

1. (Lyon dialect) kid (child)