gone

UK /ɡɒn/ US /ɡɔːn/

adj 5prep 1contraction 1

Definitions

adj

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 is gone.

Broken, failed.

The bulb is gone. Can you put a new one in?

The car isn't driveable — the steering is gone.

Dead.

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.

prep

Past, after, later than (a time).

You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock.

contraction

Alternative spelling of gon /gon': clipping of gonna or going to.

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.

Collocations

ADJ.

all, alone, bad, better, mad, old, overnight, safe

My grandfather has gone a bit mad since he retired last year.

VERB + GONE

fire, hurry, milk, needn't, said, surprise, thought

The milk has gone bad, so we'll need to buy some more at the store.

GONE + NOUN

brazil, o'clock, paris, school, things

She's gone to Paris for two weeks to visit her sister.

PREP.

down, in, on, out, than, up

The power went out during the storm and hasn't come back on yet.

ADV.

already, prolly

She's already gone to the store by the time I woke up this morning.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adjective — dead

adjective — stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alc

adjective — well in the past

adjective — drained of energy or effectiveness

exhausted
dog-tired
fagged
fatigued
spent
washed-out

Antonyms

sober

Idioms & Phrases

you never know what you've got till it's gone

People tend to take things for granted while they are available.

gone with the wind

dead

gone north about

Dead, of sailor or seaman whose cause of death was anything except by drowning.

..And he's gone on a cruise he liked better than the one you'd have had him; but that's no matter; I had better have gone north about twenty times over than come athwart you.

boldly go where no man has gone before

To break new ground.

While Strauss would not exactly be boldly going where no man has gone before if he led England to victories this year in away Test series against Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India, he

yesterday is gone

It is impossible to change or to relive what has already happened.

Near-synonyms: don't cry over spilt milk, what's done is done, you can't go home again

Example Bank

Are they gone already?

Wiktionary

The days of my youth are gone.

Wiktionary

All the little shops that used to be here are now gone.

Wiktionary

You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock.

Wiktionary

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.

Wiktionary

Mathematics is the part of science you could continue to do if you woke up tomorrow and discovered the universe was gone.

Tatoeba · #1695

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, gone is marked as informal, British. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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