# gone

Pronunciation: say "GAWN" US /ɡɔn/, AUS /ɡɔːn/; UK say "GON" /ɡɒn/

## Verb

1. Past participle of go. — past participle of go
   - Simple: Past participle of go. Use it after has, have or had.
   - _The visitors have gone, leaving the hall quiet and empty._
   - _By noon the storm had gone out to sea._

## Adjective

2. No longer present or no longer in existence, having left a place or passed into the past.
   - Simple: Not here any more, because it has left or does not exist now.
   - _When he returned from the kitchen, his guest was gone._
   - _The train was already gone by the time we reached the platform._
3. Entirely used up or consumed, leaving nothing left.
   - Simple: All used up, with none left.
   - _Our savings were gone within a year of the layoffs._
   - _Half the budget is already gone and the project has barely started._
4. A gentle, indirect way of saying that a person has died.
   - Simple: A gentle way of saying that someone has died.
   - _We sat by her bed through the night, and by morning she was gone._
   - _He was gone before the doctors could do anything more._
5. Certain to be destroyed or to fail, beyond any hope of rescue.
   - Simple: Sure to fail or be lost, with no way to escape.
   - _When the levee broke, everyone knew the lower town was gone._
   - _Down three pieces with no counterplay, his chess position was gone._
6. Only partly aware of what is happening around one, often because of intoxication or a decline in mental ability. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: Not fully aware of what is around you, often because of drink or illness.
   - _After his fourth drink he was completely gone, staring at the wall and not hearing a word we said._
   - _After the stroke, there were long afternoons when she seemed entirely gone._
7. No longer functioning, having broken down or failed.
   - Simple: Broken and no longer working.
   - _The transmission was gone, so the mechanic recommended scrapping the car._
   - _Her phone's battery is gone; it won't hold a charge anymore._
8. Used after a stated duration to indicate how far a process has advanced, especially how far along a pregnancy is.
   - Simple: Used after a length of time to show how far along something is, especially a pregnancy.
   - _She was eight months gone and could barely manage the stairs._
   - _Forty minutes gone, and the home side still trailed by a goal._
10. Infatuated with or deeply in love with someone, usually constructed with on. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Very much in love with someone.
   - _Everyone in the office could tell he was gone on her._
   - _By the second date she was hopelessly gone on him._
13. Weak or faint, with a hollow, sinking sensation inside. *(US)*
   - Simple: Feeling weak and faint, with an empty feeling inside.
   - _When the plane dropped suddenly, he got that gone feeling in the pit of his stomach._
   - _After a long shift with nothing to eat, she had a weak, gone feeling and reached for the candy bar in her bag._

## Preposition

9. Past or later than a stated clock time. *(colloquial, British)*
   - Simple: After a certain time on the clock.
   - _We can't get dinner now. It's gone nine already._
   - _He didn't stumble in until gone midnight._

## Contraction

11. Alternative spelling of gon /gon'. Nonstandard, representing a casual pronunciation of going to. *(colloquial)* — Alternative spelling of gon /gon': clipping of gonna or going to.
   - Simple: Alternative spelling of gon /gon'. A nonstandard way of writing "going to" as it sounds in very casual speech.
   - _She said she gone fix the fence this weekend._
   - _They gone find out the truth sooner or later._

## Adjective

12. Before the present time; ago, used after a length of time. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: Used after a length of time to mean that long ago.
14. Excellent or wonderful; sometimes thrillingly wild or crazy. *(dated, US)*
   - Simple: Really great or wonderful.
   - _The crowd swayed and shouted that the whole set was real gone._
   - _Back in the fifties, the kids at the coffeehouse would snap their fingers and call a good sax solo real gone._

## Other meanings

- (adjective) Of a shot arrow: flying well wide of or beyond the mark.

## Origin

"Gone" comes from Middle English gon (also gan and other forms), from Old English gān, the past participle of the verb meaning "to go," going back to Proto-Germanic *gānaz. It is related to Scots gane, West Frisian gien, Low German gahn, and Dutch gegaan, all meaning "gone."

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