Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
Gone is the past participle of go .
2.
When someone is ~, they have left the place where you are and are no longer there. When something is ~, it is no longer present or no longer exists.
He’s already been ~ four hours!...
By morning the smoke will be all ~.
ADJ: v-link ADJ
3.
If you say it is ~ a particular time, you mean it is later than that time. (BRIT INFORMAL)
It was just ~ 7 o’clock this evening when I finished.
= after, past
PREP