Gone With the Wind

American  

[wind] / wɪnd /

noun

1. a novel (1936) by Margaret Mitchell.

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Gone With the Wind Cultural  

1. (1936) A phenomenally popular novel by the American author Margaret Mitchell. Set in Georgia in the period of the Civil War, it tells of the three marriages of the central character, Scarlett O'Hara, and of the devastation caused by the war.

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gone with the wind Idioms  

1. Disappeared, gone forever, as in With these unforeseen expenses, our profits are gone with the wind. This phrase became famous as the title of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel, which alludes to the Civil War's causing the disappearance of a Southern way of life. It mainly serves as an intensifier of gone.

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The film version of Gone With the Wind, which premiered in 1939, is one of the most successful films ever made.

Example Sentences

“I’ll think about it tomorrow”: Gone With the Wind and An Inconvenient Truth.

From Washington Post • Aug. 20, 2020

Olivia de Havilland, one of the last remaining actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age, two-time Academy Award winner and star of "Gone With the Wind," has died.

From Salon • Jul. 26, 2020

With the support of Jack Warner's wife, Ann, de Havilland was offered the role of Melanie in David O Selznick's epic adaptation of the Margaret Mitchell novel, Gone With the Wind.

From BBC • Jul. 26, 2020

Olivia de Havilland established herself for ever in the film world’s collective memory at the age of 22, as the wise, gentle and beautiful Melanie Hamilton in the colossal epic Gone With the Wind.

From The Guardian • Jul. 26, 2020

Not at all like the houses in Gone With the Wind or The Seven-Year Itch, movies she’d seen with her brother and cousins at the Lighthouse and the Metro.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri