English > past times: 1 sense > noun 1, time| Meaning | The time that has elapsed. |
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| Synonyms | past, 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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