Gone vs Lone - What's the difference?
gone | lone |
Away, having left.
(figuratively) No longer part of the present situation.
No longer existing, having passed.
Used up.
Dead.
(colloquial) Intoxicated to the point of being unaware of one's surroundings
(colloquial) Excellent; wonderful.
(archaic) Ago (used post-positionally).
* 1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 491:
(British, informal) Past, after, later than (a time).
Solitary; having no companion.
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*(William Shenstone) (1714–1763)
*:When I have on those pathless wilds appeared, / And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered.
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*:The Bat—they called him the Bat.. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
Isolated or lonely; lacking companionship.
Sole; being the only one of a type.
Situated by itself or by oneself, with no neighbours.
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*(Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
*:By a lone well a lonelier column rears.
(lb) Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:Thus vanish sceptres, coronets, and balls, / And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls.
(lb) Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.
*Collection of Records (1642)
*:Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear.
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 a proper noun lone is
.gone
English
Alternative forms
* ywent (obsolete verb form)Verb
(head)Derived terms
* gonerAdjective
(-)- Are they gone already?
- 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 .
- The days of my youth are gone .
- I'm afraid all the coffee's gone at the moment.
- Dude, look at Jack. He's completely gone .
- 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)- You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock.