gone
See also: góneʼ
English
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 Scots gane (“gone”), West Frisian gien (“gone”), Dutch gegaan (“gone”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: gŏn, IPA(key): /ɡɒn/,
- (Received Pronunciation, dated) enPR: gôn, IPA(key): /ɡɔːn/
- Rhymes: -ɒn
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ɡɒːn/
- Rhymes: -ɔːn
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɡɔn/, enPR: gôn; (cot–caught merger, traditional New York City) IPA(key): /ɡɑn/, enPR: gŏn
- Rhymes: -ɔːn
Audio (US) (file)
Derived terms
Adjective
gone (not comparable)
- Away, having left.
- Are they gone already?
- (figuratively) No longer part of the present situation.
- Don't both trying to understand what Grandma says, she's gone.
- He won't be going out with us tonight. Now that he's engaged, he's gone.
- Have you seen their revenue numbers? They're gone.
- No longer existing, having passed.
- The days of my youth are gone.
- Used up.
- I'm afraid all the coffee's gone at the moment.
- Dead.
- (colloquial) Intoxicated to the point of being unaware of one's surroundings.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 41:
- Dude, look at Jack. He's completely gone.
- (slang) Entirely given up to; infatuated with; used with on.
- He's totally gone on her.
- (colloquial) Excellent; wonderful.
- (archaic) Ago (used post-positionally).
- 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 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.
- 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 491:
- (US) Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.
- Of an arrow: wide of the mark.
Translations
Preposition
gone
Fijian
French
Alternative forms
- gône
Etymology
Apparently from Franco-Provençal gonet.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡon/
Audio (file)
Further reading
- “gone” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Plautdietsch
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