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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈɡɒnə(ɹ)/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈɡɔːnɚ/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-goner.wav Forms: goners [plural]
enPR: gänʹər [Received-Pronunciation], gônʹər [General-American] Rhymes: -ɒnə(ɹ), -ɔːnə(ɹ) Etymology: From gone + -er. First attestations around 1850. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|gone|-er|id2=patient}} gone + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} goner (plural goners)
  1. (informal) Someone (or something) doomed; a hopeless case, especially someone who is bound to die soon. Tags: informal Synonyms: gone goose Translations (someone doomed, a hopeless case): mort [masculine] (Catalan), homme mort [masculine] (French), hoffnungsloser Fall [masculine] (German), Todgeweihter [masculine] (German), Verlorener [masculine] (German), spacciato [masculine] (Italian), mortuus (Latin), perdido [masculine] (Portuguese), ко́нченый челове́к (kónčenyj) (Russian), пропа́щий челове́к (propáščij) (Russian), hombre muerto [masculine] (Spanish), piltrafa [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-goner-en-noun-~5mK6BrL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er (patient), Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 57 43 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (patient): 64 36 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 64 36 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 68 32 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 71 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 67 33 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 58 42 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 67 33 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 67 33 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 67 33 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 69 31 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 67 33 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 67 33 Disambiguation of 'someone doomed, a hopeless case': 95 5
  2. (baseball slang) A ball hit out of the playing area for a home run. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Baseball
    Sense id: en-goner-en-noun-YUSzUPzY Categories (other): Terms with Ancient Greek translations Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 40 60 Topics: ball-games, baseball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: gonner

Noun [Middle English]

Head templates: {{head|enm|noun}} goner
  1. Alternative form of gunner Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: gunner
    Sense id: en-goner-enm-noun-lGJy7PQE Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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Download raw JSONL data for goner meaning in All languages combined (5.6kB)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.