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Meaning of "gone" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GONE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GONE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Gone is a verb and can also act as an adjective and an adverb.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb gone in English.



The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES GONE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of gone in the English dictionary

The first definition of gone in the dictionary is ended; past. Other definition of gone is lost; ruined. Gone is also dead or near to death.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO GONE

PRESENT

Present
I go
you go
he/she/it goes
we go
you go
they go
Present continuous
I am going
you are going
he/she/it is going
we are going
you are going
they are going
Present perfect
I have gone
you have gone
he/she/it has gone
we have gone
you have gone
they have gone
Present perfect continuous
I have been going
you have been going
he/she/it has been going
we have been going
you have been going
they have been going
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I went
you went
he/she/it went
we went
you went
they went
Past continuous
I was going
you were going
he/she/it was going
we were going
you were going
they were going
Past perfect
I had gone
you had gone
he/she/it had gone
we had gone
you had gone
they had gone
Past perfect continuous
I had been going
you had been going
he/she/it had been going
we had been going
you had been going
they had been going
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will go
you will go
he/she/it will go
we will go
you will go
they will go
Future continuous
I will be going
you will be going
he/she/it will be going
we will be going
you will be going
they will be going
Future perfect
I will have gone
you will have gone
he/she/it will have gone
we will have gone
you will have gone
they will have gone
Future perfect continuous
I will have been going
you will have been going
he/she/it will have been going
we will have been going
you will have been going
they will have been going
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would gone
you would gone
he/she/it would gone
we would gone
you would gone
they would gone
Conditional continuous
I would be going
you would be going
he/she/it would be going
we would be going
you would be going
they would be going
Conditional perfect
I would have gone
you would have gone
he/she/it would have gone
we would have gone
you would have gone
they would have gone
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been going
you would have been going
he/she/it would have been going
we would have been going
you would have been going
they would have been going
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you go
we let´s go
you go
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to go
Past participle
gone
Present Participle
going
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GONE

gonadotropic
gonadotropin
Goncharov
Goncourt
Gond
Gondar
Gondi
gondola
gondolier
Gondwana
Gondwanaland
gone a million
gone out
goneness
goner
gonfalon
gonfalonier
gonfanon
gong
gonglike

WORDS THAT END LIKE GONE

a good one
alone
anyone
done
everyone
in one
iPhone
leone
let alone
no one
no-one
none
one
phone
smartphone
someone
stone
telephone
the old one
the one

Synonyms and antonyms of gone in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «GONE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «gone» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of gone
absent · advance · astray · attempt · away · become · belong · bid · blend · brio · cease · check out · chime · connect · correspond · crack · croak · dead · decamp · deceased · defunct · depart · departed · develop · die · disappear · drive · effort · elapse · end · energy · essay · expire · extend · extinct · fare · finish · finished · fit · flow · force · function · get · get-up-and-go · give up the ghost · harmonize · help · journey · kick the bucket · lapse · lead · leave · life · lost · make tracks · match · missing · move · move out · oomph · operate · over · pan out · pass · past · peal · peg out · pep · perform · perish · proceed · reach · repair · ring · roll up · run · serve · set off · shot · snuff it · sound · span · spell · spent · spirit · spread · stab · stint · stretch · suit · tend · toll · travel · try · turn · turn out · vanish · vanished · verve · vigour · vitality · vivacity · welly · whack · whirl · withdraw · work · work out

Translation of «gone» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GONE

Find out the translation of gone to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of gone from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «gone» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

离去的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

desaparecido
570 millions of speakers

English

gone
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

चला गया
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

رَاحِل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

отсутствующий
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ausente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সর্বস্বান্ত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

parti
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hilang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

weg
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

いなくなって
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

사라진
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ical
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

qua đời, mất đi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சென்று
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गेलेले
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gitmiş
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

andato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

miniony
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

зниклий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

plecat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

χαμένος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

weg
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

försvunnen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

borte
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of gone

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GONE»

The term «gone» is very widely used and occupies the 2.832 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GONE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «gone» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «gone» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about gone

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «GONE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word gone.
1
Frank Abagnale
In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away.
2
Nicole Anderson
I have gone to Niagara-on-the-Lake. You know, Niagara Falls in Canada. It's this cute little quaint town, and it's just warm, and everyone is so nice.
3
Aziz Ansari
I have an amazing metabolism. I'm sure that'll be gone one day. But I like to exercise, too, so I don't think I'll ever get really fat.
4
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
In all the things I've gone through as a politician, I have seen that in this system it is really very difficult to make any headway without being somehow tainted. And let me say, 'Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.'
5
Bruce Babbitt
We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.
6
Ishmael Beah
I had gone to a talent show - I was interested in American hip-hop music - with my older brother, to another town, and my town was attacked. I went from having an entire family to the next minute not having anything. It was very painful.
7
Wes Borland
I could have probably gone on and still played the part of the guitar player of Limp Bizkit, but musically I was kind of bored. If I was to continue, it would have been about the money and not about the true music, and I don't want to lie to myself, or to them or to fans of Limp Bizkit.
8
Amar Bose
There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.
9
Lucien Bouchard
It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible.
10
Billy Burke
I've never had a series that's gone past 12 episodes.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GONE»

Discover the use of gone in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to gone and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Gone Girl
What have we done to each other? These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick.
Gillian Flynn, 2012
2
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.
Ishmael Beah, 2007
3
Gone
Things should be great for Janie—she has graduated from high school and is spending her summer with Cabel, the guy she’s totally in love with.
Lisa McMann, 2010
4
Gone
When a car is taken by force, with an eleven-year-old girl inside, Detective Jack Caffery knows this is a carjacking unlike any other.
Mo Hayder, 2011
5
The Wind Done Gone: A Novel
In this daring and provocative literary parody which has captured the interest and imagination of a nation, Alice Randall explodes the world created in GONE WITH THE WIND, a work that more than any other has defined our image of the ...
Alice Randall, 2002
6
Righting English That's Gone Dutch
Handleiding voor het vermijden van 'Dunglish', de mengtaal die ontstaat als Nederlanders het Engels gebruiken volgens de regels van het Nederlands.
Joy Burrough-Boenisch, 2004
7
The Dead and The Gone
Now this harrowing companion novel examines the same events as they unfold in New York City, revealed through the eyes of seventeen-year-old Puerto Rican Alex Morales.
Susan Beth Pfeffer, 2010
8
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in ...
Many Thousands Gone traces the evolution of black society from the first arrivals in the early seventeenth century through the Revolution.
Ira Berlin, 2009
9
You Know When the Men Are Gone
Powerful, singular, and unforgettable, these stories will resonate deeply with readers and mark the debut of a new talent of tremendous note.
Siobhan Fallon, 2011
10
Gone: A Novel
Celebrating the achievement of a successful career only to be abandoned by her failed sculptor husband, Eve Adams struggles to raise her children alone while balancing conflicting demands, the realities of midlife and her evolving views on ...
Cathi Hanauer, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GONE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term gone is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Women shot during drug deal gone bad
Two women were wounded in a shooting Monday morning outside a nightclub along Interstate 10 in what police say appears to have been a ... «Chron.com, Jul 15»
2
18 Workers Freed After 'Armed Robbery Gone Wrong' at Paris …
Three armed suspects were on the run Monday after a bungled robbery at a department store in Paris that trapped 18 workers inside for several ... «NBCNews.com, Jul 15»
3
Celgene Boldly Goes Where Few Have Gone Before
Celgene Boldly Goes Where Few Have Gone Before. Celgene and Juno forge a 10-year deal worth $1 billion, but it's something other than the ... «Motley Fool, Jul 15»
4
Why Canadian Solar Inc.'s Shares Have Gone Dark Since June
Why Canadian Solar Inc.'s Shares Have Gone Dark Since June. Tariffs could be a long-term challenge for a company that's not as Canadian as ... «Motley Fool, Jul 15»
5
Mexico drug lord feared gone for good
PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1: Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, above, has escaped from Altiplano maximum security prison in ... «Boston Herald, Jul 15»
6
Police: Men shot 'wildly' in drug deal gone wrong at Economy Inn …
An investigator takes photos of a 2nd floor room of the Economy Inn on Brainerd Road after a double-shooting just after 12:00 p.m. on Friday, ... «Chattanooga Times Free Press, Jul 15»
7
Where Have All the Workers Gone?
The latest unemployment report continued a series of positive emanations from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) which, along with positive ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
8
Mick O'Connell: Concept of Gaelic 'football' gone
Two weeks ago, Cavan scored a goal within 25 seconds of the throw-in against Roscommon when Martin Reilly jinked inside his marker and ... «RTE.ie, Jul 15»
9
Young: Ronaldinho magic has gone
Young: Ronaldinho magic has gone · ESPN FC ... Ronaldinho magic has gone since glory days as he prepares for Fluminese. Ronaldinho is ... «ESPN FC, Jul 15»
10
This man has gone under the knife to look like Kim Jong-Un
The 32-year-old, from China, bears an uncanny resemblance to Kim Jong-Un and has even gone under the knife to boost his unusual ... «Metro, Jul 15»

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