Gone

Definition: Gone

Gone

Adjective

1. Not present; having left; "he's away right now"; "you must not allow a stranger into the house when your mother is away"; "everyone is gone now"; "the departed guests".

2. (informal) destroyed or killed; "we are gone geese".

3. (euphemistic) "he is deceased"; "our dear departed friend".

4. Having all been spent; "the money is all gone".

5. Well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era".

6. No longer retained; "gone with the wind".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "gone" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Gone

Absence

Adjective: absent, not present, away, nonresident, gone, from home; missing; lost; wanting; omitted; nowhere to be found; inexistence.

Death

Adjective: dead, lifeless; deceased, demised, departed, defunct, extinct; late, gone, no more; exanimate, inanimate; out of the world, taken off, released; departed this life. Verb: dead and gone; dead as a doornail, dead as a doorpost, dead as a mutton, dead as a herring, dead as nits; launched into eternity, gone to one's eternal reward, gone to meet one's maker, pushing up daisies, gathered to one's fathers, numbered with the dead.

Hopelessness

Adjective: hopeless, desperate, despairing, gone, in despair, au desespoir, forlorn, desolate; inconsolable; (dejected); broken hearted.

Inexistence

Perished, annihilated; Verb: extinct, exhausted, gone, lost, vanished, departed, gone with the wind; defunct; (dead).

The Past

Adjective: past, gone, gone by, over, passed away, bygone, foregone; elapsed, lapsed, preterlapsed, expired, no more, run out, blown over, has-been, that has been, extinct, antediluvian, antebellum, never to return, gone with the wind, exploded, forgotten, irrecoverable; obsolete; (old).

Crosswords: Gone

I'm gone too Miss Daisy (Driving Miss Daisy; writing credit: Alfred Uhry)

I have dreamed a dream, but now that dream is gone from me. (The Matrix Reloaded; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

A vampire gone insane that pollutes it's own bed (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

My thumbs have gone weird (Withnail and I; writing credit: Bruce Robinson.)

I love you. And I'm about to boldly go where many men have gone before (Almost Famous; writing credit: Cameron Crowe)

But part of me is gone (When I'm Gone; performing artist: 3 DOORS DOWN)

And Lord, I've been a long time gone (Long Time Gone; performing artist: Dixie Chicks)

Too gone, too long baby (Too Gone Too Long; performing artist: En Vogue)

I think you're already gone (If You're Gone; performing artist: Matchbox 20)

But I miss you when you're gone (When You're Gone; performing artist: The Cranberries)

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Rhubarb: A kind of celery gone bloodshot. (references; author: unknown)

No happy time is really gone if it leaves a special memory. (references; author: unknown)

My mind works like lightning. One brilliant flash, and it is gone. (references; author: unknown)

Sleeping on the job: Geez, I thought you (the boss) were gone for the day. (references; author: unknown)

Gone (2003)

Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1969)

Star Trek: Where No Man Has Gone Before (1966)

Where Love Has Gone (1964)

Gone Are the Days! (1963)

Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone (performing artist: Sammy Jr. Davis)

Days Gone Down (performing artist: Gerry Rafferty)

Don't Foget Me (When I'm Gone) (performing artist: Glass Tiger)

Here Is Gone (performing artist: Goo Goo Dolls)

Long Gone Lonesome Blues (performing artist: Hank Williams Sr.)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Gone in 60 Seconds (reference)

• Gone with the Wind (reference)

• Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 1, Episodes 2 & 3: Where No Man Has Gone Before/ The Corbomite Maneuver (reference)

• Girls Gone Wild: Collection (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• After You've Gone (reference)

• Gone Wanderin (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Clark Point, New Bedford. Prior to restoration, the primary wastewater plant is now gone and a park was developed at the site. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Sewage treatment plant settling tank at the southern tip of Clarks Point. The facility is now gone. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Pasque flower gone to seedBrush, grassesWildflowers. Credit: Roger Rosentreter.

The Price Of Illegal Drugs Has Just Gone Up. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Scene in the control room during Wahoo's 27 January 1943 action with a Japanese destroyer. When the photo was taken the submarine was at 300 feet, rigged for depth charges. Six charges had just gone off and the crew was awaiting more. Lieutenant Commander Dudley W. Morton, Wahoo's Commanding Officer, reported this action as: "Another running gun fight ... destroyer gunning ... Wahoo running". Shaved head on crewman at right is a product of an Equator crossing ceremony three days previously. Credit: NAVY.

Stranded on Bembridge Ledge, Isle of Wight, circa early February 1919. She had gone aground while en route to Southampton, England, during post-World War I transport operations, and was later refloated and returned to service. Credit: NAVY.

A gone case. A scene in Wall-Street. Credit: Library of Congress.

I lose-a my baggage, I shouted loudly. You savvy? baggage heap gone! coach vamoose, get me?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Washington cook (to mistress in the hall)--"Shure, ye can't come in. We've gone into executive session, and we're cookin up something to surprise ye". Credit: Library of Congress.

Beef has gone up. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The reason whereof is plain; because the one using force, which threatened my life, I could not have time to appeal to the law to secure it: and when it was gone, it was too late to appeal. (Second Treatise of Government)

As the parson has ever gone band in hand with the landlord, so has Clerical Socialism with Feudal Socialism. (reference)

Members of such Councils who are natives of another region and are exercising their functions at the date of the coming into force of the present Treaty, or who have gone out of office since March 1, 1919, shall be evacuated. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Happily, it was now time to be gone.

I was glad to see he had quite recovered from the terrible scene he had gone through

I wish you could have gone.

That self was gone.

The two teeth were gone.

He has gone to complain

and they are gone.

The fences were gone and the cotton grew in the dooryard and up against the house, and the cotton was about the shed barn

My mistress was gone about her household affairs, and had locked me in.

He should have gone up garret at once

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

This does not mean the infection is gone. The medicine must still be taken. (references)

Women have gone through menopause at around the age of 50 for hundreds, if not thousands of years. (references)

The problem in ALPS happens after an infection is gone. In ALPS, apoptosis does not work as well as it should. (references)

Business

Industrial companies have gone through privatization and restructuring. (references)

Demand for leasing machinery and equipment has gone up, in sharp contract to demand for purchase. (references)

Many of them already had gone through a feasibility study and currently in the stage of development. (references)

Children

Indonesia

In its budget for 2002, the Government allocated 1.0 percent of the GDP to education, or 0.74 percent of the country's GDP. A 1979 law on children's welfare defines the responsibility of the State and parents to nurture and protect children; however, implementing regulations have never been promulgated and, despite DPR deliberations during the year, the law's provisions on protection of children had not gone into effect by year's end. (references)

Civil Liberties

Cote d'Ivoire

Gouly had gone to the headquarters of a taxi insurance company to cover a dispute among the associates of the company. (references)

Peru

The tabloid papers that were strong supporters of the Fujimori administration either have gone out of business or have changed their coverage to more typical, nonpolitical, tabloid fare. (references)

Discrimination

Hong Kong

During the year, 41 complaints were received under the Family Status Discrimination Ordinance, which protects persons whose marital status changes, who have children, or who are responsible for caring for another family member, such as a child or elderly person; one of the complaints had gone to court and was pending at year's end. (references)

Economic History

Nigeria

According to government officials, no dispute cases have gone to ICSID. (references)

Angola

Some efforts to recover have gone forward, however, notably in fisheries. (references)

Human Rights

Estonia

Once a case has gone to court, the court issues warrants. (references)

Guatemala

Of these, only 48 of them, or 13 percent, have gone to trial. (references)

Nicaragua

As of July, 44 cases had gone to arbitration but none had completed that stage. (references)

Political Economy

FINLAND

Legislation implementing EU insurance directives has gone into effect. (references)

Colombia

Negotiations with the FARC, Colombia's largest guerrilla group, have gone forward. (references)

PANAMA

Extraordinary quotas have been authorized for rice and pork products when stocks have gone down in order to prevent scarcity of food products. (references)

Trade

Korea

Traditionally, most trade and project financing has gone to large Korean conglomerates (chaebol), due to their perceived financial security and immense capital base. (references)

Honduras

Congress passed two new laws in 2001, the Stock Market Law was passed February 20, 2001 and the Financial Institution Deposit Insurance Law that was passed on May 7, 2001 but has not gone into effect yet. (references)

Travel

Trinidad

Rental and purchase costs vary, although prices have gone up substantially in the past three years. (references)

Women

Ghana

The case was not settled by year's end, principally because the airline had gone out of business. (references)

Ghana

The bill has not gone before Parliament but during the year, it was sent back to FIDA with recommendations for redrafting. (references)

Worker Rights

Ghana

However, no union has ever gone through the complete process. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "gone": a gone coon ♦ all gone ♦ be far gone ♦ be gone ♦ be gone on smb. ♦ clean gone ♦ dead and gone ♦ far gone ♦ gone are the days when ♦ gone away ♦ gone by ♦ gone case ♦ gone expended spent ♦ gone mad ♦ gone off ♦ gone on ♦ gone out ♦ gone out of one's head ♦ gone out of one's recollection ♦ gone to ♦ Gone to Davy Jones's Locker ♦ gone to his reward ♦ gone to meet one's maker ♦ gone to one's eternal reward ♦ gone to the dogs ♦ gone to waste ♦ gone wild ♦ gone with the wind ♦ gone without saying ♦ have gone ♦ have gone through much suffering ♦ he has gone for a stroll ♦ he has gone forty ♦ he's gone ♦ i've gone off beer ♦ now it's all gone ♦ one's wits gone a bird's nesting ♦ over gone ♦ she is nine months gone ♦ that's all gone ♦ the decree is gone forth ♦ the tide has gone out ♦ the time having gone by ♦ this scheme has gone far ♦ too far gone ♦ what have you gone and done? ♦ you've been and gone and done it!. Additional references.

Beginning with "gone": gone-away, gone-out, gone-tomorrow, gone-to-seed.

Ending with "gone": long-gone.

Containing "gone": blues-band-gone-wrong, her-today-gone-tomorrow, Italian-gone-la, time-gone-by-period.

Albanian

i larguar (devious, evacuee, runaway, wide), i ikur (refugee, runaway), i humbur (dupe, faraway, forfeit, lorn, loser, losing, lost, missing, stray, strayed, waste), i harxhuar (spent), i dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, faint, fainting, feeble, flabby, flaccid, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متيم (enamored, enamoured, infatuated, lovelorn, lovesick, mad), ‏هالك (perishable, stale), ‏تام (blank, complete, crass, entire, every, flat, implicit, integral, outright, perfect, perfected, performed, plenary, pure, rank, regular, round, sound, thorough, thoroughgoing, unconditional, unequivocal, unqualified, utter, whole), ‏ضائع (godforsaken, lost, missing, up the spout, wasted). (various references)

Bulgarian 

умиращ (dying, moribund), голям (almighty, big, chunking, great, grown up, hearty, heavy, hefty, jolly, large, major, man-sized, massive, near, numerous, powerful, proper, vast, vasty, walloping), вървя (foot, go, move, pass, pike, progress, push on, ride, run, sell, step, track, tread, walk, work), знаменит (celebrated, cunning, famous, glorious, great, illustrious, inconceivable, lustrous, prominent, proud, reputed, rousing, terrific), загинал (perished, undone), пропаднал (failed, forlorn, irreclaimable, rotting, unsuccessful), изгубен (lost, missing, stray). (various references)

Chinese 

去 (Away-going, Go, goes, going). (various references)

Czech

vyèerpaný (bushed, effete, exhausted, fatigued, finished, impoverished, spent, stale, washed out, worn out), pryè (away, off, out, past), příè.min. od go. (various references)

Danish

oversvømmet (gone to water), bortkommet document (deed gone astray, lost document). (various references)

Dutch

weg (away, means, remedy, resources, road, route, way). (various references)

Farsi 

ملوان (Gob, Leatherneck, Sailor, Seaman, Shipman). (various references)

Finnish

mennyt (past). (various references)

French

sonné, séduisé, révolu, perdu, passé, mort, fasciné, disparu, amoureux fervent, allés, allées, allé. (various references)

German

gegangen (walked, went), fort (away, begone, besides, Fort, fortification, furthermore, in addition, moreover, off, on). (various references)

Greek 

μετοχή του go, χαμένοσ (departed, goner, lost), φευγάτοσ (fled), φευγάτος (fled). (various references)

Hebrew 

אבוד (forfeiture, hopeless, loss, lost, missing, ruin, waste). (various references)

Hungarian

halott (casualty, dead, dead man, dead woman, deceased, goner, stone-dead), reménytelen (beyond hope, beyond recovery, desperate, hopeless, to be past praying for, to be past recovery), elveszett (bushed, lorn, lost, missing, to be gone, to be missing, undone), előrehaladott (far gone). (various references)

Indonesian

sirna (destroyed, disappeared, lost, vanished), punah (destroyed, entirely disappeared, wiped out), musnah (perish, vanish), habis (at en end, done, finished, nothing left). (various references)

Irish

imithe. (various references)

Italian

andato (came). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

荒れ放題 (gone to ruin), 精が尽きる (one's energy is gone, to be exhausted), 生き腐れ (appearing fresh but actually gone bad), レコードが廃れている (LPs have gone out of fashion), 伏水 (water gone underground), 失せ去る (to be gone, to disappear), 仕舞屋 (household that lives without carrying on a business, store that has been gone out of business). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しもたや (household that lives without carrying on a business, store that has been gone out of business), うせさる (to be gone, to disappear), ふくすい (abdominal dropsy, ascites, water gone underground), せいがつきる (one's energy is gone, to be exhausted), いきぐされ (appearing fresh but actually gone bad), あれほうだい (gone to ruin). (various references)

Korean 

가는 (Ploughed, Plowed, Tended). (various references)

Luganda

ngenze (am gone). (various references)

Norwegian

gått. (various references)

Pig Latin

onegay.(various references)

Portuguese

sem esperança (forlorn), ido, falecido (deceased, defunct), desesperado (abysmal, desperate, despondent, hopeless, in despair), desaparecido (absent, absentee, lost, missing). (various references)

Romanian

plecat (bent, humble, submissive), pierdut (absent minded, blankly, far away, forfeit, lost, missing, stray, vague, wasted), participiu trecut de la go, mort (breathless, cold, dead, dead and gone, dead beat, deceased, defunct, dummy, exanimate, extinct, in the dust, lifeless), desperat (abject, desperado, desperate, desperately, forlorn, hopeless, madman, pathetic, pathetically, temerarious), absent (absent, absent minded, absentee, absently, absent-mindedly, abstracted, abstractedly, away, far away, missing, omitted, out). (various references)

Russian 

ушедший, умерший (dead, deceased, deceased person, late), разоренный (broke, down and out, kaput, war-devastated), пропащий, идти ушедший. (various references)

Scottish

seach (a turn, alteration : fa seach, aside, away, by, gone by, mu), falbh (absent onself, depart, go away, go falbhan, going, gone away, leave, leaving, to leave, walking : air falbh). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

svršio svoje, prohujao, particip proš. od go. (various references)

Spanish

ido (left, looped, taken). (various references)

Swedish

borta (absent, afield, aloof, away, missing, out, over, with the wind). (various references)

Thai

หมดสติ (coo-coo, gone under, zonk), จากไป (buzz along, frank, off). (various references)

Turkish

gitmiş, geçkin (faded, over, over age), geçmiş (antecedents, background, belated, bygone, case history, departed, former, history, lang syne, passe, passee, past, previous, standing, yesterdays), kendinden geçmiş (beside oneself, distracted, distraught, ecstatic, enrapt, entranced, intoxicated, rapt, rapturous, senseless, slaphappy, unconscious), kayıp (bereavement, decrement, forfeit, loss, lost, missing, sacrifice), ilerlemiş (acute, advanced, forward, improved, onward, past cure), heyecanlı (agitated, aglow, agog, astir, crazed, declamatory, dramatic, emotional, excitable, excited, exciting, febrile, feverish, glowing, gripping, happy, heated, hectic, het up, hot, impassioned, in a lather, inspired, nail biting, rhapsodic, rhapsodical, spirited, stormy, thrilling, tiptoe, vibrant, warm, wrought up, zealous), yok olmuş (extinct), mahvolmuş (all up, banged up, bankrupt, damaged, kaput, lost, perished, ruined, undone, up the spout, washed up, wrecked), ölmüş (dead, deceased, defunct, departed), sevdalanmış, bozulmuş (abashed, broken down, cankered, contaminated, corrupt, degenerate, flyblown, out, putrid, rank, ropy, ruined, spoilt, unmade, upset, withered, wrecked), bozuk (addle, bad, broken, broken down, bum, damaged, dead, deranged, dirty, disappointed, dished, disordered, distorted, doric, embroiled, faulty, flyblown, foul, hard set, haywire, heavy, hipshot, imperfect, in bad order, irregular, kaput, knackered, off, on the fritz, out of action, out of commission, out of gear, out of order, perverse, putrefacient, putrefactive, putrid, rancid, rotten, stale, touched, unsound, upset, vicious, wrong), aşık (admirer, adorer, amorist, amorous, beau, besotted, enamoured, fancy man, gallant, in ecstasy, in love, inamorato, lover, minstrel, paramour, singer, spoon, Swain, sweetheart, wandering minstrel, wooer), ümitsiz (drear, dreary, forlorn, frantic, gloomy, hopeless, past cure, past hope, pathetic), hamile (big with child, expectant, expecting, gravid, heavy, heavy with child, heavy with young, impregnate, in pod, in pup, in the family way, preggers, pregnant, with child, with young). (various references)

Ukrainian

розорений (broke, broken, ruined), втрачений (bereaved, lost), використаний (used), минулий (ancient, backward, bygone, departed, erstwhile, former, last, one time, overblown, overpast, past), пропащий (naught). (various references)

Xhosa

uhambe (Has gone, You go). (various references)

absens, absens, absentis, absente, absentes, absentia, absentibus, absentis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "gone": gonef, gonefs, goneness, gonenesses, goner, goners. (additional references)

Words ending with "gone": agone, begone, bygone, doggone, epigone, foregone, forgone, isogone, orgone, outgone, undergone, wobegone, woebegone. (additional references)

Words containing "gone": agones, burgonet, burgonets, bygones, doggoned, doggoneder, doggonedest, doggoner, doggones, doggonest, dragonet, dragonets, epigones, isogones, jargoned, jargonel, jargonels, mangonel, mangonels, orgones, paragoned, waggoned, waggoner, waggoners, wagoned, wagoner, wagoners, wagonette, wagonettes, woebegoneness, woebegonenesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Gone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: agone, gaen, ganel, ganen, ganne, gcn, Genel, geney, gien, gine, gino, Giono, Gjoni, Glonek, Gloyne, gne, gnee, gno, gnod, gnode, gnoe, gnof, gnore, gnou, goae, gobe, Goce, Gocek, Godney, goe, goeh, Goei, goent, goep, goex, gofe, goge, goie, goin, goine, goke, Gole, golee, gome, Gomel, go'n, gona, gonal, gonan, gonas, gonat, gonbee, Gond, goned, gones, Gonet, goneu, gonex, goney, gonez, goni, gonie, goniff, Gonim, Gonio, gonj, gonk, gonn, gonna, gonne, gonnes, gonnet, gont, gonu, gooe, goole, goona, goone, goonk, gope, Gopnik, Gorni, Gornik, Gorno, Gote, goue, goune, gove, gowe, Gowna, goxe, goye, goze, grone, Gronet, gsni, Gunde, gune, gunea, gunel, gunge, gunie, gunne, gyne, gyon, jone, jonne, Nghon, ngonde, noge, ogen, ogn, ognjen, ognon, Ogonek, ogooue, Ogunbe, vone. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ego, eng, eon, gen, nog, one.

-2 letters: en, go, ne, no, oe, on.

+1 letter: agone, conge, genoa, genom, genro, gnome, gonef, goner, longe, pengo, segno.

+2 letters: agones, begone, belong, biogen, bonged, bygone, cogent, coigne, congee, conger, conges, dongle, eggnog, eloign, enough, epigon, eringo, eryngo, exogen, genoas, genome, genoms, genros, gentoo, gnomes, gnoses, golden, gonefs, goners, gonged, gooney, goonie, gorhen, gotten, govern, gowned, groyne, guenon, hoeing, ignore, legion, legong, longed, longer, longes, lounge, monger, mongoe, morgen, nogged, nonage, nonego, noodge, onager, oogeny, orange, orgone, oxygen, pengos, pigeon, ponged, pongee, region, segnos, soigne, sponge, toeing, tonged, tonger, tongue, wigeon.