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Definition: Goner |
GonerNoun1. A person in desperate straits; someone doomed. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "goner" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1876. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Hopelessness | Airy hopes forlorn hope; gone case, dead duck, gone coon; goner; bad job, bad business; enfant perdu; gloomy horizon, black spots in the horizon; slough of Despond, cave of Despair; immedicabile vulnus. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Oh, then you're a goner. (Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco; writing credit: Chris Hauty) He's a goner (Hey Arnold!; writing credit: Luís Filipe Rocha) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Goner" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Goner" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 21 | 76,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "goner": be a goner. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
goner record | 12 |
goner | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "goner"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | njeri i mbaruar (wreck), i rrënuar (decrepit, desolate, dilapidated, disreputable, effete, impoverished, lost, ramshackle, tumble down, tumbledown, up the spout), i pashpresë (desperate, disconsolate, frustrate, frustrated, hopeless, unlikely). (various references) | |
Arabic | الهالك الميئوس منه. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | умрял човек, обречен човек, загубена работа, пропаднал човек. (various references) | |
Czech | být vyřízený (be a goner, be done for), být synem smrti (be a goner). (various references) | |
Farsi | مردنی (Dying, Mortal), رفتنی . (various references) | |
German | weg vom fenster sein (be a goner), kaputt sein (be a goner, be on the blink, to be out of order), es nicht mehr lange machen (be a goner). (various references) | |
Greek | ξοφλημένοσ, νεκρόσ (dead, defunct, lifeless), χαμένοσ (departed, gone, lost). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עובר בטל, בטל (idle, invalid, null, off, piffling, unoccupied, vacant, void). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tönkrement ember (gone coon, he is a gone coon), halott (gone, dead, dead woman). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onergay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pessoa liquidada, caso perdido. (various references) | |
Russian | конченый человек, загубленная вещь, пропащее дело. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | postradalnik. (various references) | |
Spanish | desahuciado (far gone, hopeless). (various references) | |
Thai | คนสาบสูญ (คำสแลง). (various references) | |
Turkish | gidici kimse, ölmek üzere kimse. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | загублена річ, жертва залякування, пропаща людина. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người không còn hòng gì mở mặt mở mày được nữa, người bỏ đi (cast-off, duffer). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "goner": goners. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "goner": doggoner, waggoner, wagoner. (additional references) | |
Words containing "goner": waggoners, wagoners. (additional references) | |
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"Goner" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Foner, ganery, ganre, Gencer, gener, genery, Genner, ginepro, ginir, Glonek, gnoe, gnomr, gnore, gnur, gober, goder, Goehr, goent, goern, Gogner, Gohner, goier, goine, goler, Gomera, gona, gonan, gonbee, Gonder, goned, goneer, gones, Gonet, goneu, gonex, goney, gonez, goni, Gonio, gonne, gonner, gonnere, gonnes, gonnet, gonor, gonu, gooder, goomer, goona, goone, gooner, goonier, Gopnik, goren, gorer, Gorner, goser, Goter, goune, gover, goxe, goxer, goyer, gozer, gunel, Gunier, ioner, joner, noner, ogener, ognjen, Ogonek, oner, voner, zoner. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "goner" (pronounced gÄ"ner) |
| 3 | -Ä" n er | Conner, dishonor, honor, wanner. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: genro. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: ergo, goer, gone, gore, ogre. | |
-2 letters: ego, eng, eon, erg, ern, gen, gor, nog, nor, one, ore, reg, roe. | |
-3 letters: en, er, go, ne, no, oe, on, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: conger, eringo, eryngo, genros, goners, gorhen, govern, groyne, ignore, longer, monger, morgen, onager, orange, orgone, region, tonger. | |
+2 letters: acrogen, begroan, burgeon, congers, coreign, cryogen, engorge, engross, erelong, eringos, eroding, eryngos, foreign, forgone, frogmen, genitor, gorhens, governs, groaned, groaner, groined, groynes, guerdon, ignored, ignorer, ignores, kerogen, leghorn, longers, lounger, marengo, mongers, mongrel, morgens, negator, negroid, negroni, onagers, oranges, orangey, oregano, orgones, orogeny, overing, perigon, pirogen, presong, progeny, pronged, pyrogen, redoing, regions, regrown, rontgen, roughen, signore, sponger, surgeon, tongers, undergo, wagoner, wronged, wronger, younger, zeroing. | |
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