Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Being away from a place; absent or having departed.
- adjective Missing or lost.
- adjective No longer in existence; not part of the present.
- adjective No longer available; used up.
- adjective No longer alive; dead.
- adjective Past; bygone.
- adjective Advanced, as in illness or deterioration.
- adjective Ruined; lost.
- adjective Carried away; absorbed.
- adjective Slang Infatuated.
- adjective Slang Pregnant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lapsed; lost; hopeless; beyond recovery: in a gone case and similar phrases.
- Characterized by a sinking sensation, as if about to faint; weak and faint: as, a gone feeling.
- In archery, wide of the mark or beyond bounds: said of an arrow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- p. p. of
go .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Past participle of
go - adjective
Away , having left. - adjective figuratively No longer part of the present situation.
- adjective No longer
existing , havingpassed . - adjective
Used up . - adjective
Dead . - adjective colloquial
Intoxicated to the point of being unaware of one's surroundings - adjective colloquial
Excellent ; wonderful. - adjective archaic
Ago (used post-positionally). - preposition UK, informal
Past ,after ,later than (a time).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective destroyed or killed
- adjective no longer retained
- adjective well in the past; former
- adjective dead
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Examples
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When he was gone, the realization that he was *gone* was mind-blowing and devastating.
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On further inquiry, the man stated that since the cat came _down the tree_, it was a sign that his brother had gone down to hell; but had the cat _gone up the tree_, it would have shown that he had gone up to heaven.
Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen
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Edgar is gone, said the mother, with head half bowed, gone to work in Nashville; he and his father couldnt agree.
IV. Of the Meaning of Progress. William Edward Burghardt 1903
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Certain things in me are gone -- _gone_ -- and instead there is a fire -- something driving, tormenting -- which must burn its way out.
Marcella Humphry Ward 1885
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Like with domain names, once a desired username is gone … it is gone*.
The Invent Blog® 2009
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Like with domain names, once a desired username is gone … it is gone*.
The Invent Blog® 2009
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Coz in a way, i scared my other choices for this year de application in NTU might be successful instead of my first choice and if this happens, i wanna be able to go to the course which i was reserved in NUS. no wont be gone but u would have to reject one of them if both get thru yes. will be gone~ Serious, anyone had this form of experience? no wont be gone but u would have to reject one of them if both get thru Seriously bro?
www.hardwarezone.com.sg SoriyaGTR34 2010
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I am full of suspicion, and, therefore, listen to nothing; I am in a hurry to be gone’.59 We approach the great masters and the great things of the world when they are a little difficult to us in just this spirit: we listen to nothing, we are in a hurry to be gone.
Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000
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Get you gone, baggage! get you _gone_! "he repeated, with a stamp; for a knock at the hall-door made her instantaneous disappearance indispensable.
Green Tea; Mr. Justice Harbottle Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843
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Well, long after the campaign (but still campaigning like another election is tomorrow) and after one quarter of his term gone by, there seems to be a "Surge" in his plan and more rhetoric on "the end" of wars.
SplicedFeed 2009
yarb commented on the word gone
"Mr Hicks who was the officer ashore did all in his power to entice them to him by offering them presents &c but it was to no purpose, all they seem’d to want was for us to be gone."
- Captain Cook, Journals. On first contact with the natives of New Holland (Australia).
February 5, 2008