English Explanatory Dictionary

gone

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. past participle of go
adj
  1. Away, having left.
  2. No longer existing, having passed.
  3. Used up.
  4. Broken, failed.
  5. Dead.
  6. Doomed, done for.
  7. Not fully aware of one's surroundings, often through intoxication or mental decline.
  8. Infatuated; in love (+ on, for, in).
  9. Excellent, wonderful; crazy.
  10. Ago (used post-positionally).
  11. Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.
  12. Of an arrow: wide of the mark.
prep
  1. Past, after, later than (a time).
contraction
  1. Alternative spelling of gon /gon': clipping of gonna or going to.

Pronunciation

gŏn /ɡɒn/ /ɡɔːn/ gôn /ɡɔn/ /ɡɑn/ en-us-gone.ogg

Word forms

gone further gone farther gone goner furthest gone farthest gone gonest

Etymology

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”).

Derived words

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 gone-zo just gone real gone the arse has gone clean out of 'er the arse has gone out of 'er the arse has gone right out of 'er the arse is gone right out of 'er to hell and gone too far gone ungone waygone yesterday is gone yesterday's gone you never know what you've got till it's gone
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