I. ˈgȯn also ˈgän adjective
Etymology: from past participle of go
1.
a. : past
sweet memories of gone summers — John Cheever
b. of an arrow : having passed above the mark
2.
a. : advanced , involved , absorbed
had expected to find her … far gone in hysteria — Frank Yerby
b. : infatuated
in love! she is so far gone she does not know which way to sail — Edna S. V. Millay
— often used with on
was real gone on that man — Pete Martin
c. : pregnant
a woman seven months gone
3.
a. : dead
the stupid inanimate limbs of the gone wretch — George Meredith
b. : done for : lost , ruined
if he loses the steam and blacks out the ship we're gone ducks — R.F.Mirvish
c. obsolete : drunk
d. : exhausted, fatigued
nothing like cold spring water to put life back into a poor gone body — Rebecca Caudill
e. : sinking
the empty or gone feeling in the abdomen so common in elevators — H.G.Armstrong
4. slang : great — used as a generalized expression of approval
the duke qualifies as a real gone fashion reporter — Inez Robb
II. ˈgōn noun
( -s )
Etymology: Greek gonē seed, offspring, from the stem of Greek gignesthai to be born — more at kin
: germ cell