gone vs late

gone

adj
  • Dead. 

  • Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness. 

  • 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. 

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

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

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

late

adj
  • Deceased, dead: used particularly when speaking of the dead person's actions while alive. (Generally must be preceded by a possessive or an article, commonly "the"; see usage notes. Can itself only precede the person's name, never follow it.) 

  • Not having had an expected menstrual period. 

  • Associated with the end of a period. 

  • Levied as a surcharge on a payment received after a deadline. 

  • Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; departed, or gone out of office. 

  • Specifically, near the end of the day. 

  • Recent — relative to the noun it modifies. 

  • Near the end of a period of time. 

  • Of a star or class of stars, cooler than the sun. 

  • Not arriving or occurring until after an expected time. 

adv
  • After a deadline has passed, past a designated time. 

  • Not long ago; just now. 

  • Formerly, especially in the context of service in a military unit. 

noun
  • A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place late in the day or at night. 

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