Gone Meaning
/ɡɒn/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbpast participle of go
adjAway, having left.
Sentence Examples
For a moment there, I thought he had gone mad.
You needn't have gone to the trouble.
The cost of posting a letter has gone up again.
CEFR Practice Quiz
After the long winter, the snow had completely ____ from the fields.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The beautiful summer weather is finally ____, replaced by the cool breezes and changing leaves of the autumn.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English gon, igon, gan, ȝegan, from Old English gān, ġegān, from Proto-Germanic *gānaz (“gone”), past participle of *gāną (“to go”). Cognate with West Germanic Scots gane (“gone”), West Frisian gien (“gone”), Low German gahn (“gone”), and Dutch gegaan (“gone”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"All the love in the world can't be gone / All the need to be loved can't be wrong / All the records are playing and my heart keeps saying / "Boogie Wonderland, Wonderland""
— 1979, Earth, Wind & Fire, “Boogie Wonderland”, in I Am:
"Dust, that a breath could blow aside, yet that was once, like ourselves, animate with hope, passion, and sorrow, is below; around are the vain memorials of human grief and human pride; yet all alike dedicated to the gone."
— 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Marriage”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 221:
"[S]he put on a kind of sing-song voice whenever she was pissed, it was one of the signs that she was really gone[…]."
— 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section III, page 28:
"I am, of course, ‘gone’ for you."
— 1902, Henry James, The Wings of the Dove:
"But he was pleased and happy and flattered. She was evidently frightfully gone on him."
— 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 35, in Of Human Bondage, Vintage, published 2000:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
After the long winter, the snow had completely ____ from the fields.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The beautiful summer weather is finally ____, replaced by the cool breezes and changing leaves of the autumn.