gone

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”).

verb

1. past participle of go
2. Alternative spelling of gon or gon': short for gonna, going to.

adj

1. Away, having left.
   Are they gone already?
2. No longer existing, having passed.
   The days of my youth are gone.
   All the little shops that used to be here are now gone.
3. Used up.
   I'm afraid all the coffee's gone at the moment.
   The bulb's gone, can you put a new one in?.
4. Dead.
5. Doomed, done for.
   Have you seen the company's revenue? It's through the floor. They're gone.
6. (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.
7. (slang) Entirely given up to; infatuated with; used with on.
   He's totally gone on her.
8. (informal, US, dated) Excellent, wonderful; crazy.
   It was a group of real gone cats.
   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. 1975, Garry Marshall et al., “Richie's Flip Side”, in Happy Days, season 2, episode 21, spoken by Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard)
9. (archaic) Ago (used post-positionally).
   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. 1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 491
10. (US) Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.
11. Of an arrow: wide of the mark.
12. Used with a genitively constructed duration to indicate for how long a process has been developing, an action has been performed or a state has persisted; pregnant.
    She’s three months' gone

prep

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