Gone Definition

gôn, gŏn
adjective
Moved away; departed.
Webster's New World
Lost.
Webster's New World
No longer in existence; not part of the present.
American Heritage
No longer alive; dead.
American Heritage
Ruined.
Webster's New World
preposition

(UK, informal) Past, after, later than (a time).

You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock.
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Origin of Gone

  • From Middle English gon, igon, gan, ȝegan, from Old English gān, ġegān, from Proto-Germanic *gānaz (“gone”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *gāną (“to go”). Cognate with Scots gane (“gone”), West Frisian gien (“gone”), Dutch gegaan (“gone”).

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