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Gone vs Agone - What's the difference?

gone | agone |

As a verb gone

is .

As an adjective gone

is away, having left.

As a preposition gone

is (british|informal) past, after, later than (a time).

As an adverb agone is

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gone

English

Alternative forms

* ywent (obsolete verb form)

Verb

(head)

    • Derived terms

    * goner

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Away, having left.
    • Are they gone already?
  • (figuratively) No longer part of the present situation.
    • Don't both trying to understand what Grandma says, she's gone .
    He won't be going out with us tonight. Now that he's engaged, he's gone .
    Have you seen their revenue numbers? They're gone .
  • No longer existing, having passed.
    • The days of my youth are gone .
  • Used up.
    • I'm afraid all the coffee's gone at the moment.
  • Dead.
  • (colloquial) Intoxicated to the point of being unaware of one's surroundings
    • Dude, look at Jack. He's completely gone .
  • (colloquial) Excellent; wonderful.
  • (archaic) Ago (used post-positionally).
  • * 1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 491:
    • Six nights gone , your brother fell upon my uncle Stafford, encamped with his host at a village called Oxcross not three days ride from Casterly Rock.

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • (British, informal) Past, after, later than (a time).
    • You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock.

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    agone

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • * Bible, 1 Sam. xxx. 13
    • Three days agone I fell sick.
  • * 1663 ,
  • *:And many a serpent of fell kind, / With wings before, and stings behind, / Subdued; as poets say, long agone , / Bold Sir George, Saint George did the dragon.

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