Standard Lemma guide

gone

adj · contraction · prep · verb · 18 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: gŏn
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ɡɒn/
  • rhymes with -ɒn
  • Australian, Multicultural-London-English, Received-Pronunciation, archaic: /ɡɔːn/
  • General-American: gôn
  • General-American: /ɡɔn/
  • rhymes with -ɔːn
  • New-York-City, cot-caught-merger, traditional: gŏn
  • New-York-City, cot-caught-merger, traditional: /ɡɑn/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɑːn
  • CMU ARPABET: G AO1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Away, having left.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Are they gone already?

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

No longer existing, having passed.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • The days of my youth are gone.
  • All the little shops that used to be here are now gone.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

adj

Meaning 3

Used up.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • I'm afraid all the coffee is gone.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

adj

Meaning 4

Broken, failed.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • The bulb is gone. Can you put a new one in?
  • The car isn't driveable — the steering is gone.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

adj

Meaning 5

Dead.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

adj

Meaning 6

Doomed, done for.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

adj

Meaning 7

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: colloquial

Examples

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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

adj

Meaning 8

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: slang

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

adj

Meaning 9

Excellent, wonderful; crazy.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, dated, informal

Examples

  • It was a group of real gone cats.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

adj

Meaning 10

Ago (used post-positionally).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

adj

Meaning 11

Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

adj

Meaning 12

Of an arrow: wide of the mark.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

adj

Meaning 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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • She’s three months gone

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

contraction

Meaning 14

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, alternative, contraction

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

15

prep

Meaning 15

Past, after, later than (a time).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, informal

Examples

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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

16

verb

Meaning 16

past participle of go

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, participle, past

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

17

adjective satellite

Meaning 17

dead

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he is deceased
  • our dear departed friend

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: asleep(p), at peace(p), at rest(p), deceased, departed

Antonyms: none provided

18

adjective satellite

Meaning 18

well in the past; former

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • bygone days
  • dreams of foregone times
  • sweet memories of gone summers
  • relics of a departed era

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: bygone, bypast, departed, foregone

Antonyms: none provided

History

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”).

Across languages

Translations

28 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: ikur — away, having left
  • Catalan: anat — away, having left
  • Dutch: weg — away, having left
  • Esperanto: irinta — away, having left
  • Esperanto: foririnta — away, having left
  • Finnish: poissa — away, having left
  • French: parti — away, having left
  • German: weg — away, having left
  • Ancient Greek: φροῦδος (phroûdos) — away, having left
  • Ancient Greek: οἰχόμενος (oikhómenos) — away, having left
  • Hungarian: eltűnt — away, having left
  • Irish: ar shiúl — away, having left
  • Italian: andarsene — away, having left
  • Latin: abiisse — away, having left
  • Portuguese: ir-se — away, having left
  • Sanskrit: गत (gata) — away, having left
  • Spanish: ido — away, having left
  • Swedish: borta — away, having left
  • Esperanto: for — no longer existing
  • German: vorbei — no longer existing
  • German: weg — no longer existing
  • Spanish: (él) se murió — no longer existing
  • Spanish: (él) ha muerto — no longer existing
  • Spanish: (él) ya no está — no longer existing
  • Chickasaw: taha — used up
  • Dutch: op — used up
  • German: alle — used up
  • German: aufgebraucht — used up