I. gone 1 /ɡɒn $ ɡɒːn/ BrE AmE
the past participle of ↑ go
II. gone 2 BrE AmE adjective
1 . be gone
a) to be no longer in a particular place:
The door slammed and he was gone.
I turned round for my bag and it was gone.
b) to be dead or to no longer exist:
His wife’s been gone for several years.
Many of the old houses are gone now.
⇨ dead and gone at ↑ dead 1 (1)
2 . be gone on somebody British English informal to be very attracted to someone of the opposite sex:
Kate’s really gone on that boy next door.
3 . be five/six/seven etc months gone British English informal to have been ↑ pregnant for five, six etc months ⇨ going, going, gone at ↑ go 1 (36)
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THESAURUS
▪ dead no longer alive:
the bodies of three dead soldiers
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Is her father dead?
▪ lifeless literary dead or seeming to be dead:
their lifeless bodies
▪ late [only before noun] formal dead – use this as a polite way of talking about someone who has died, especially recently:
Mrs Lombard’s late husband
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a gold Cartier bracelet that once belonged to the late American artist Andy Warhol
▪ deceased formal dead:
Her parents, now deceased, disapproved of her marriage.
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her deceased husband
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They were friends of the deceased (=the person who died) .
▪ departed [only before noun] dead – used in order to be polite and avoid saying the word ‘dead’:
They paid their respects to their departed uncle.
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his dear departed wife
▪ gone [not before noun] informal dead – used especially when someone was alive not long before:
‘Is she gone?’ ‘I’m afraid so.’
III. gone 3 BrE AmE preposition British English informal
later than a particular time or older than a particular age SYN past :
When we got home it was gone midnight.