Meaning

13 senses
  1. Away, having left.

    Are they gone already?

    weg

  2. No longer existing, having passed.

    The days of my youth are gone.

    All hopes for a truce are gone.

    vorbei, weg

    used up or no longer available

  3. Used up.

    I'm afraid all the coffee is gone.

    If the milk is all gone, we'll drink our coffee black.

    alle, aufgebraucht

  4. Broken, failed.

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

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

  5. Dead.

    dead

  6. Doomed, done for.

    Have you seen the company's revenue? It's through the floor. They're gone.

  7. (colloquial)Not fully aware of one's surroundings, often through intoxication or mental decline.

    Don't bother trying to understand what Grandma says; she's gone.

  8. (slang)Infatuated; in love (+ on, for, in).

  9. (US, dated, informal)Excellent, wonderful; crazy.

    It was a group of real gone cats.

  10. (US)Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.

  11. Of an arrow: wide of the mark.

  12. 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.

    She’s three months gone

Examples

3994 sentences
  1. The pain has mostly gone away.

    Біль майже пройшов. — aandrusiak

    deDer Schmerz ist größtenteils verschwunden. — Wolf

  2. The last train has already gone.

    Останній поїзд вже від'їхав. — ChickenKiev

    ruПоследний поезд уже ушел. — afyodor

    deDer letzte Zug ist schon weg. — joha2

  3. How long has Tom been gone?

    Скільки не було Тома? — deniko

    deWie lange ist Tom schon weg? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. I can't believe Tom has gone.

    Повірити не можу, що Том пішов. — deniko

    ruЯ не могу поверить, что Том ушёл. — odexed

  5. I was only gone an hour.

    Мене не було лише годину. — deniko

    ruМеня всего час не было. — Wezel

    deIch war nur eine Stunde lang weg. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

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By meaning 3
away, having left:
no longer existing:
used up:

Origin

From Middle English gon, igon, gan, ȝegan, from Old English gān, ġegān, from Proto-Germani

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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Forms

further gone/farther gone/goner, furthest gone/farthest gone/gonest

Synonyms

23 synonyms
Close in meaning

Collocations

12 patterns
  • gone gone
  • has gone gone
  • gone gone to
  • be gone gone
  • should've gone gone
  • gone gone by
  • already gone gone
  • gone gone home
  • gone gone there
  • gone by the
  • gone gone out
  • gone gone for

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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