past

1. Earlier than the present time;
   No longer current (synset 301732158)
   "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year"
   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 happens
   similar 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
2. Of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office (synset 301299212)
   "a retiring member of the board"
   similar to: outgoing - leaving a place or a position
   same as: preceding, retiring

1. The time that has elapsed (synset 115145765)
   "forget the past"
   is a type of: time - the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
   subtypes:

   • 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
2. A earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret) (synset 115166653)
   "reporters dug into the candidate's past"
   is a type of: period, period of time, time period - an amount of time
   is a part of: life - the period between birth and the present time
3. A verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past (synset 106341255)
   is a type of: tense - a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
   subtypes: preterit, preterite - a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense
   same as: past tense

1. So as to pass a given point (synset 400419697)
   "every hour a train goes past"
   same as: by

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