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gone^¹

/ɡɒn/ UK
/ɡɔːn/ Australia, Multicultural London English, UK
/ɡɔn/ US
/ɡɑn/ New York City, cot caught merger, traditional

Rhymes with -ɒn, -ɔːn, -ɑːn

Where it comes from

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

participle, past past participle of go

adjective further gone · farther gone · goner · furthest gone · farthest gone · gonest

Away, having left. Are they gone already?
No longer existing, having passed. The days of my youth are gone.
Used up. I'm afraid all the coffee is gone.
Broken, failed. The bulb is gone. Can you put a new one in?
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 gone.
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. Don't bother trying to understand what Grandma says; she's gone.
slang Infatuated; in love (+ on, for, in). I am, of course, ‘gone’ for you.
US, dated, informal Excellent, wonderful; crazy. It was a group of real gone cats.
archaic 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.
US Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.
Of an arrow: wide of the mark.
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

preposition

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

gone^²

/ɡɒn/ UK
/ɡɔːn/ Australia, Multicultural London English, UK
/ɡɔn/ US
/ɡɑn/ New York City, cot caught merger, traditional

Rhymes with -ɒn, -ɔːn, -ɑːn

contraction

alternative, contraction 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.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: departed, away, deceased, dead, done for, lost, destroyed, absent, expended, spent, exhausted, kaput, bygone, bypast, asleep, past

Translations

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adj away, having left

Español	ido
Português	ir-se
Français	parti
Deutsch	weg
Italiano	andarsene

adj no longer existing

Español	(él) se murió, (él) ha muerto, (él) ya no está
Deutsch	vorbei, weg

adj used up

Deutsch	alle, aufgebraucht

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BibTeX

@misc{gone_2026,
  title = {gone},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gone},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}