past
Past events have already happened — if it happened an Ice Age ago, a century ago, or even a minute ago, it's in the past.
They say the past is history and it's true. If you have ever been accused of "living in the past," you cling to what was instead of reveling in what is. If you hear that a person or a rare object in an antique store "has a past," get ready for a colorful story. As an adjective, past describes what is no longer current, like the past president of a club or past fashion craze — it's over: its time has passed.
Definitions of past
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earlier than the present time; no longer current“time past”“his youth is past”“this past Thursday”“the past year”
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noncurrent
not current or belonging to the present time
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outgoing
leaving a place or a position
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old
of long duration; not new
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ago, agone
gone by; or in the past
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ancient
belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire
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bygone, bypast, departed, foregone, gone
well in the past; former
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chivalric, knightly, medieval
characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages
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early, former, other
belonging to the distant past
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erstwhile, former, old, one-time, onetime, quondam, sometime
belonging to some prior time
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former, late, previous
(used especially of persons) of the immediate past
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historic, historical
belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past
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last
immediately past
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late, recent
of the immediate past or just previous to the present time
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olden
long past
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other
recently past
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prehistoric, prehistorical
belonging to or existing in times before recorded history
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then
at a specific prior time
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ult, ultimo
in or of the month preceding the present one
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present
temporal sense; intermediate between past and future; now existing or happening or in consideration
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future
yet to be or coming
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incoming
arriving at a place or position
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existing
presently existing
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immediate
of the present time and place
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inst, instant
in or of the present month
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latter-day
belonging to the present or recent times
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approaching, coming, forthcoming, upcoming
of the relatively near future
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future day
yet to come
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early
expected in the near future
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emerging, rising
coming to maturity
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in store
in readiness; awaiting
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prox, proximo
in or of the next month after the present
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prospective
of or concerned with or related to the future
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noncurrent
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of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office
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the time that has elapsed“forget the past”
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synonyms:
past times, yesteryear
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future, futurity, hereafter, time to come
the time yet to come
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yore
time long past
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bygone, water under the bridge
past events to be put aside
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old
past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
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history
the aggregate of past events
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time immemorial, time out of mind
the distant past beyond memory
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auld langsyne, good old days, langsyne, old times
past times remembered with nostalgia
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yesterday
the recent past
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type of:
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time
the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
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future, futurity, hereafter, time to come
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a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret)“reporters dug into the candidate's past”
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type of:
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period, period of time, time period
an amount of time
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period, period of time, time period
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a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past
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synonyms:
past tense
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so as to pass a given point“every hour a train goes past”
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