# gone
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: gŏn, IPA: /ɡɒn/
** Rhymes: -ɒn
* (General Australian, archaic RP) IPA: /ɡɔːn/
* (General American) enPR: gôn, IPA: /ɡɔn/
** Rhymes: -ɔːn
* (cot–caught merger, traditional New York City) enPR: gŏn, IPA: /ɡɑn/
** Audio (US); [ɡ̊ɑ̃ːn]:(file)
** Rhymes: -ɑːn

### Etymology 1

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”).

#### Verb

gone
* past participle of go

#### Adjective

gone (comparative further gone or goner, superlative furthest gone or gonest)
* 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.
** 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Marriage”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 221: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.
    Have you seen the company's revenue? It's through the floor. They're gone.
* (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.
** 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section III, page 28:[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 […] .
* (slang) Infatuated; in love (+ on, for, in).
** 1902, Henry James, The Wings of the Dove:I am, of course, ‘gone’ for you.
** 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 35, in Of Human Bondage, Vintage, published 2000:But he was pleased and happy and flattered. She was evidently frightfully gone on him.
* (informal, US, dated) Excellent, wonderful; crazy.
    It was a group of real gone cats.
** 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 11, in On the Road, Penguin, published 1976, →OCLC, part 1, page 61:“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.”
** 1975, Garry Marshall et al., “Richie's Flip Side”, in Happy Days, season 2, episode 21, spoken by Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard):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.
* (archaic) Ago (used post-positionally).
** 1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 491: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.
* (US) Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.
* 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.
    She’s three months gone

##### Translations
#### Preposition

gone
* (British, informal) Past, after, later than (a time).
    You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock.

#### Derived terms

* arse has gone clean out of 'er
* arse has gone out of 'er
* arse has gone right out of 'er
* arse is gone right out of 'er
* be gone
* boldly go where no man has gone before
* bygone
* da arse is gone right out of 'er
* day gone by
* dead and gone
* downgone
* far gone
* get you gone
* gone aloft
* gone bad
* gone by lunchtime
* gone case
* gone coon
* gone fishing
* gone goose
* gone north about
* goner
* goneski
* gonesome
* Gonesville
* gone with the wind
* gone wrong
* gone-zo
* just gone
* real gone
* to hell and gone
* too far gone
* ungone
* waygone
* yesterday is gone
* yesterday's gone
* you never know what you've got till it's gone

### Etymology 2
#### Contraction

gone
* Alternative spelling of gon / gon': short for gonna, going to.
** 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 24: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.

### References

* “gone”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* ENGO, Geno, Goen, NGEO, Onge, geno, geno-, geon, oneg

## Fijian
### Noun

gone
* child

## French
### Alternative forms

* gône

### Etymology

Apparently from Franco-Provençal gonet.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡon/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

gone m (plural gones)
* (Lyon dialect) kid (child)
    Synonyms: enfant, gosse

### Further reading

* “gone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English guma.

#### Noun

gone
* Alternative form of gome (“man”)

### Etymology 2

From Old English gān, ġegān.

#### Verb

gone
* Alternative form of gon (“gone”)

## Plautdietsch
### Verb

gone (3rd person present jeit, past jinkj, past participle jegone)
* to walk
* to go, to move
* to proceed
* (baking, of dough) to rise

## Yola
### Verb

gone
* Alternative form of goan
** 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:Gone to glaade.After it is set.

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 42