gone

Away, having left.

Adjective

  1. Away, having left.
    • Are they gone already?
  2. No longer existing, having passed.
    • The days of my youth are gone.
    • All the little shops that used to be here are now gone.
    • 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" - 1979, Earth, Wind & Fire, “Boogie...
  3. Used up.
    • I'm afraid all the coffee is gone.
  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.
    • 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...
  6. Doomed, done for.
    • Have you seen the company's revenue? It's through the floor. They're gone.
  7. 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[…]. - 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section III, page 28:
  8. Infatuated; in love (+ on, for, in).
    • I am, of course, ‘gone’ for you. - 1902, Henry James, The Wings of the Dove:
    • But he was pleased and happy and flattered. She was evidently frightfully gone on him. - 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 35, in Of Human Bondage, Vintage, published 2000:
  9. 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.” - 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 11, in On the...
    • 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. - 1975, Garry Marshall et al., “Richie's Flip Side”, in Happy Days, season 2, episode...
  10. 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. - 1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011,...
  11. Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.
  12. Of an arrow: wide of the mark.

Origin

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”).

Forms

further gone farther gone goner furthest gone farthest gone gonest

Contraction

  1. 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. - 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale,...

Preposition

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

Derived

all gone be gone boldly go where no man has gone before bygone da arse is gone right out of 'er day gone by dead and gone downgone far gone get you gone gone aloft gone bad gone by lunchtime gone case gone coon gone fishing gone goose gone north about goner goneski gonesome Gonesville gone with the wind gone wrong

Verb

  1. past participle of go