Word
gon
Definitions
01going to
part. a very informal way of saying 'going to' when you talk about what will happen.
part. a non-standard contraction of 'going to', typically used before a verb to indicate future intent or certainty.
“I think it's gon be a long day at the office today.”
“He told his friends he was gon head out early if the party didn't pick up soon.”
Informal · Slang · Dialect
Usage
Used as an auxiliary to indicate the future; almost always follows a form of the verb 'to be', which is sometimes omitted in specific dialects.
Pitfall
I gon go to the store.
I'm gon go to the store.
Even in very informal speech, you still need the 'be' verb (am/is/are) before 'gon'.
Synonyms
02unit of angle
n. a unit for measuring angles, where a right angle is divided into 100 parts.
n. a unit of angular measurement equal to one hundredth of a right angle.
“The surveyor measured the slope of the hill in gons rather than degrees.”
“In certain European engineering contexts, the gon is preferred over the degree for its decimal-friendly division of right angles.”
Technical
Usage
Primarily used in surveying and specific engineering fields in parts of Europe.
Synonyms
Etymology
Clipping of gonna. Compare Middle English gon, dialectal gan, Dutch gaan.
From Ancient Greek γωνία (gōnía, “angle”). More in Wikipedia at gradian § History and name.
Clipping.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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