Pronunciations (6)
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/ɡɒn/
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- Received-Pronunciation
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/ɡɔːn/
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- Australia
- Multicultural-London-English
- Received-Pronunciation
- archaic
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/ɡɔn/
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- General-American
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/ɡɑn/
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- New-York-City
- cot-caught-merger
- traditional
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ɡɒn
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- GB
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ɡɔːn
Adjective
Away, having left.
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Are they gone already?
No longer existing, having passed.
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The days of my youth are gone.
All hopes for a truce are gone.
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All the little shops that used to be here are now gone.
All the love in the world can't be gone / All the need to be loved can't be wrong / All the records are playing and my heart keeps saying / "Boogie Wonderland, Wonderland"
Used up.
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I'm afraid all the coffee is gone.
If the milk is all gone, we'll drink our coffee black.
Broken, failed.
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The bulb is gone. Can you put a new one in?
The car isn't driveable — the steering is gone.
Dead.
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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.
Doomed, done for.
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Have you seen the company's revenue? It's through the floor. They're gone.
Not fully aware of one's surroundings, often through intoxication or mental decline.
Usage- Colloquial
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Don't bother trying to understand what Grandma says; she's gone.
[S]he put on a kind of sing-song voice whenever she was pissed, it was one of the signs that she was really gone[…].
Infatuated; in love (+ on, for, in).
Usage- Slang
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I am, of course, ‘gone’ for you.
But he was pleased and happy and flattered. She was evidently frightfully gone on him.
Excellent, wonderful; crazy.
Usage- US usage
- Dated
- Informal
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It was a group of real gone cats.
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“All right, all right, don’t drop your gold all over the place. I have found the gonest little girl in the world and I am going straight to the Lion’s Den with her tonight.”
Dad, I want to be a jock. All a jock needs is some hep patter and a real gone image. Now, they just don't teach that jazz in college.
Ago (used post-positionally).
Usage- Archaic
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Six nights gone, your brother fell upon my uncle Stafford, encamped with his host at a village called Oxcross not three days ride from Casterly Rock.
Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.
Usage- US usage
Of an arrow: wide of the mark.
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.
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She’s three months gone
Preposition
Past, after, later than (a time).
Usage- UK usage
- Informal
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You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock.
Adjective
destroyed or killed
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we are gone geese
dead
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he is deceased
our dear departed friend
well in the past; former
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bygone days
dreams of foregone times
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sweet memories of gone summers
relics of a departed era
stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
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a noisy crowd of intoxicated sailors
helplessly inebriated
drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted
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the day's shopping left her exhausted
he went to bed dog-tired
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was fagged and sweaty
the trembling of his played out limbs
felt completely washed-out
only worn-out horses and cattle
you look worn out
used up or no longer available
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gone with the wind
if we don't get there early, all the best seats will be gone