gone

Meanings

Verb

• Alternate spelling of gon or gon': short for gonna, going to.

Adjective

• Away, having left.
• No longer existing, having passed.
• Used up.
• Dead.
• Doomed, done for.
• Not fully aware of one's surroundings, often through intoxication or mental decline.
• Entirely given up to; infatuated with; used with on.
• Excellent; wonderful.
• Ago (used post-positionally).
• Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.
• Of an arrow: wide of the mark.
• Used to indicate the duration of a course of action or state of being, especially pregnancy; pregnant

Origin

• From Middle English gon, igon, gan, ȝegan, from Old English gān, ġegān, from Proto-Germanic *gānaz ("gone"), past participle of *gāną. Cognate with West Germanic Scots gane ("gone"), West Frisian gien ("gone"), Low German gahn ("gone"), Dutch gegaan ("gone") and German gegangen ("gone").