past
Adjective
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also:
- noncurrent - not current or belonging to the present time
- outgoing - leaving a place or a position
- old - of long duration; not new
tells us about: timing - the time when something happenssimilar to:- ago, agone - gone by; or in the past
- ancient - belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire
- bygone, bypast, departed, foregone, gone - well in the past; former
- chivalric, knightly, medieval - characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages
- early, former, other - belonging to the distant past
- erstwhile, former, old, one-time, onetime, quondam, sometime - belonging to some prior time
- former, late, previous - (used especially of persons) of the immediate past
- historic, historical - belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past
- last - immediately past
- late, recent - of the immediate past or just previous to the present time
- olden - relating to time long past
- other - recently past
- prehistoric, prehistorical - belonging to or existing in times before recorded history
- then - at a specific prior time
- ult, ultimo - in or of the month preceding the present one
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similar to: outgoing - leaving a place or a position
Noun
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is a type of: time - the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the pastsubtypes:
- yore - time long past
- bygone, water under the bridge - past events to be put aside
- old - past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
- history - the aggregate of past events
- time immemorial, time out of mind - the distant past beyond memory
- auld langsyne, good old days, langsyne, old times - past times remembered with nostalgia
- yesterday - the recent past
same as: past times, yesteryear -
is a part of: life - the period between birth and the present time
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is a type of: tense - a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of timesame as: past tense
Adverb
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same as: by
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