Definition of "gone" in англійська

verb

1. past participle of go

adjective

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 is gone.

4. Broken, failed.

   • The bulb is gone. Can you put a new one in?
   • The car isn't driveable — the steering is gone.

5. Dead.

6. Doomed, done for.

   • Have you seen the company's revenue? It's through the floor. They're gone.

7. (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.

8. (slang) Infatuated; in love (+ on, for, in).

9. (informal, US, dated) Excellent, wonderful; crazy.

   • It was a group of real gone cats.

10. (archaic) Ago (used post-positionally).

11. (US) Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.

12. Of an arrow: wide of the mark.

13. 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

preposition

1. (British, informal) Past, after, later than (a time).

   • You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock.

contraction

1. Alternative spelling of gon /gon': clipping of gonna or going to.