goneverb
uk/ɡɒn/us/ɡɑːn/past participle of go
gonepreposition
uk/ɡɒn/us/ɡɑːn/UKlater or older than:
I said I'd be home by six and it's already gone seven.
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Before, after and already
- advance
- afore
- after
- afterwards
- already
- ante
- as it is idiom
- following
- formerly
- front
- heretofore
- immediate
- in advance idiom
- in advance of sth/sb idiom
- later
- prologue
- shortly
- subsequent
- successor
- thereafter
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Describing age & birthdays
goneadjective
uk/ɡɒn/us/ɡɑːn/gone adjective (LEFT)
[ after verb ] If something is gone, there is none of it left:
All my money is gone and I have nothing to buy food with.
[ after verb ] dead:
Fortunately I'll be dead and gone long before the money runs out.
They did everything they could to save him, but he was already too far gone (= too close to death) when the ambulance arrived.
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Unavailable and inaccessible
- busy
- busy signal
- discontinued
- engaged
- impenetrable
- inaccessible
- irrecoverable
- lost
- off
- out
- oversubscribed
- reserved
- season
- spoken for
- tie
- tie sb up
- tie sth up
- unavailable
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Death and dying
gone adjective (PREGNANT)
[ after noun ] mainly UK informal pregnant:
How far gone is she? (= How long has she been pregnant?)
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Obstetrics: pregnancy
- artificial insemination
- backstreet abortion
- carry
- child
- ectopic pregnancy
- embryo
- embryonic
- expect
- family
- fruitful
- full-term
- have a bun in the oven idiom
- IVF
- late-term
- pregnancy
- pro-choice
- pro-life
- surrogacy
- trimester
- trouble
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Idiom(s)
be gone on sb