gone

English Online Dictionary. What means gone‎? What does gone mean?

English

Pronunciation

• (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/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːn

Etymology 1

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

gone

1. past participle of go

Adjective

gone (comparative further gone or goner, superlative furthest gone or gonest)

1. Away, having left.

2. No longer existing, having passed.

3. Used up.

4. Broken, failed.

5. Dead.
6. Doomed, done for.

7. (colloquial) Not fully aware of one's surroundings, often through intoxication or mental decline.
8. (slang) Infatuated; in love (+ on, for, in).
9. (informal, US, dated) Excellent, wonderful; crazy.
10. (archaic) Ago (used post-positionally).
11. (US) Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.
12. Of an arrow: wide of the mark.
13. 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.

Translations

Preposition

gone

1. (British, informal) Past, after, later than (a time).

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Contraction

gone

1. Alternative spelling of gon / gon': short for gonna, going to.

References

• “gone”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• ENGO, Geno, Goen, NGEO, Onge, geno, geno-, geon, oneg

Fijian

Noun

gone

1. child

French

Alternative forms

• gône

Etymology

Apparently from Franco-Provençal gonet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡon/

Noun

gone m (plural gones)

1. (Lyon dialect) kid (child)

   Synonyms: enfant, gosse

Further reading

• “gone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English guma.

Noun

gone

1. Alternative form of gome (“man”)

Etymology 2

From Old English gān, ġegān.

Verb

gone

1. Alternative form of gon (“gone”)

Plautdietsch

Verb

gone (3rd person present jeit, past jinkj, past participle jegone)

1. to walk
2. to go, to move
3. to proceed
4. (baking, of dough) to rise

Yola

Verb

gone

1. Alternative form of goan

References

• 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