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gone

Pronunciation: /ɡɒn/

The English word “gone” has 14 meanings listed here.

adjective

  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.
  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.

preposition

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

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”).

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