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Meaning of gone | Babel Free

Noun CEFR A1 Common
ɡɒn

Definitions

  1. Alternative spelling of gon /gon': clipping of gonna or going to.
    alt-of, alternative, contraction
  2. past participle of go
  3. Past participle of go1.
  4. Away, having left
  5. Being away from a place; absent or having departed.
  6. No longer existing, having passed
  7. No longer in existence; not part of the present: "The biggest catastrophe was the lack of wildlife. The great herds were gone" (Tom Clynes).
  8. Used up
  9. Advanced, as in illness or deterioration: "My poor father was far gone in a decline that took him off" (Robert Louis Stevenson).
  10. Broken, failed
  11. Ruined; lost: a gone cause.
  12. Carried away; absorbed: far gone in speculation.
  13. Slang Infatuated: gone on his sweetheart.
    Slang
  14. Slang Pregnant: is five months gone.
    Slang
  15. the past participle of go1
  16. ended; past

Equivalents

Català anat
Deutsch alle aufgebraucht vorbei Weg
Esperanto for foririnta irinta
Español ausente ha muerto ido se murió
Suomi poissa
Français gone gône Parti
Gaeilge ar shiúl
Magyar eltűnt
Italiano andarsene
Kurdî gone ido partî
Nederlands op weg
Português ir-se
Shqip ikur
Svenska borta

Examples

“Take or be taken. Get yours or get got. It was the code of the streets and I'd lived by it. The way things was looking, I was prolly gone die by it too.”

CEFR level

A1
Beginner
This word is part of the CEFR A1 vocabulary — beginner level.
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