alone vs gone

alone

adj
  • Lacking peers who share one's beliefs, experiences, practices, etc. 

  • By oneself, solitary. 

adv
  • Not requiring anything further; merely. 

  • By oneself; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo. 

  • Without outside help. 

  • Used to emphasize the size or extent of something by selecting a subset. 

  • Not permitting anything further; exclusively. 

gone

adj
  • Not fully aware of one's surroundings, often through intoxication or mental decline. 

  • Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness. 

  • Dead. 

  • Of an arrow: wide of the mark. 

  • Used with a genitively constructed duration to indicate for how long a process has been developing, an action has been performed or a state has persisted; pregnant. 

  • Doomed, done for. 

  • Away, having left. 

  • Used up. 

  • No longer existing, having passed. 

  • Entirely given up to; infatuated with; used with on. 

prep
  • Past, after, later than (a time). 

How often have the words alone and gone occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )