English > past: 6 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | Earlier than the present time; no longer current. |
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| Examples | - "time past"
- "his youth is past"
- "this past Thursday"
- "the past year"
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| Attribute of | timing | The time when something happens |
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| Narrower | ago, agone | gone by |
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| 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 |
| 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, onetime, one-time, quondam, sometime | belonging to some prior time |
| former, late, previous | (used especially of persons) of the immediate past |
| historic, historical | belonging to the past |
| last | immediately past |
| late, recent | Of the immediate / immediate past or just previous to the present time |
| olden | long past |
| other | recently past |
| prehistoric, prehistorical | belonging to or existing in times before recorded history |
| then | At a specific prior time |
| ultimo, ult | In or of the month preceding the present one |
| See also | noncurrent | not current or belonging to the present time |
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| nonmodern | not modern |
| old | Of long duration |
| outgoing | Leaving a place or a position |
| Opposite | future | yet to be or coming |
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| present | temporal sense |
| Spanish | pasado, último |
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| Nouns | pastness | the quality of being past |
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English > past: 6 senses > noun 1, time| Meaning | The time that has elapsed. |
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| Example | "forget the past" |
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| Synonyms | past times, yesteryear |
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| Narrower | auld langsyne, langsyne, old times, good old days | past times remembered with nostalgia |
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| bygone, water under the bridge | Past events to be put aside |
| history | The aggregate of past events |
| old | past times (especially in the phrase 'in days of old') |
| time immemorial, time out of mind | The distant past beyond memory |
| yesterday | The recent past |
| yore | Time long past |
| Broader | time | The continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past |
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| Opposite | future, hereafter, futurity, time to come | The time yet to come |
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| Spanish | antaño, pasado, tiempo pasado |
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| Catalan | antany, passat, temps passat |
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