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See also: góneʼ
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: gŏn, IPA(key): /ɡɒn/
- Rhymes: -ɒn
- (General Australian, archaic RP) IPA(key): /ɡɔːn/
- (General American) enPR: gôn, IPA(key): /ɡɔn/
- Rhymes: -ɔːn
- (cot–caught merger, traditional New York City) enPR: gŏn, IPA(key): /ɡɑn/
Etymology 1
[edit]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
[edit]gone
- past participle of go
Adjective
[edit]gone (comparative further gone or goner, superlative furthest gone or gonest)
- 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.
- The bulb's gone, can you put a new one in?.
- Dead.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Marriage”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 221:
- 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) Entirely given up to; infatuated with; used with on.
- He's totally gone on her.
- (informal, US, dated) Excellent, wonderful; crazy.
- It was a group of real gone cats.
- 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 11, in On the Road, Penguin, published 1976, →OCLC, part 1, page 61:
- “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.”
- 1975, Garry Marshall et al., “Richie's Flip Side”, in Happy Days, season 2, episode 21, spoken by Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard):
- 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.
- (archaic) Ago (used post-positionally).
- 1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 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.
- (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; pregnant.
- She’s three months gone
Translations
[edit]away, having left
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Preposition
[edit]gone
- (British, informal) Past, after, later than (a time).
- You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock.
Derived terms
[edit]- arse has gone clean out of 'er
- arse has gone out of 'er
- arse has gone right out of 'er
- arse is gone right out of 'er
- boldly go where no man has gone before
- da arse is gone right out of 'er
- day gone by
- dead and gone
- far gone
- gone aloft
- gone bad
- gone by lunchtime
- gone case
- gone coon
- gone fishing
- gone north about
- goner
- Gonesville
- gone with the wind
- gone wrong
- just gone
- real gone
- to hell and gone
- too far gone
- yesterday is gone
- yesterday's gone
- you never know what you've got till it's gone
Etymology 2
[edit]Contraction
[edit]gone
- Alternative spelling of gon/gon': short for gonna, going to.
- 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 24:
- 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.
References
[edit]- “gone”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
[edit]Fijian
[edit]Noun
[edit]gone
French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Apparently from Franco-Provençal gonet.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gone m (plural gones)
Further reading
[edit]- “gone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old English guma.
Noun
[edit]gone
- Alternative form of gome (“man”)
Etymology 2
[edit]From Old English gān, ġegān.
Verb
[edit]gone
- Alternative form of gon (“gone”)
Plautdietsch
[edit]Verb
[edit]gone (3rd person present jeit, past jinkj, past participle jegone)
Yola
[edit]Verb
[edit]gone
- Alternative form of goan
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
- Gone to glaade.
- After it is set.
References
[edit]- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 42
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