About The Word Past
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What's The Definition Of Past?
[n] a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past
[n] the time that has elapsed; "forget the past" [n] a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret); "reporters dug into the candidate's past" [adv] so as to pass a given point; "every hour a train goes past" [adj] earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year" [adj] (grammar) a verb tense or other construction referring to events or states that existed at some previous time; "past participle" Synonyms | Synonyms for Past: ago | agone | ancient | by | bygone | bypast | chivalric | departed | earlier | early(a) | erstwhile(a) | ex(a) | foregone | former(a) | gone | historic | historical | knightly | last(a) | late(a) | medieval | olden | once(a) | onetime(a) | other(a) | past tense | past times | prehistoric | prehistorical | previous(a) | quondam(a) | recent | sometime(a) | then(a) | ult | ultimo | yesteryear | yore Related Terms | Find terms related to Past: above | above and beyond | across | after | ago | ancient | antecedent | anterior | antiquated | antique | antiquity | aorist | aoristic | background | before | behind | beyond | biography | blown over | by | bygone | bygone days | bypast | career | chronology | close by | continuity | dated | days beyond recall | days gone by | days of old | days of yore | dead | dead and buried | dead and gone | deceased | defunct | departed | disused | done | duration | durative | duree | early | elapsed | erstwhile | existence | expired | extinct | finished | fore | foregoing | foretime | forgotten | former | former times | future | future perfect | gone | gone glimmering | gone out | gone-by | has-been | heretofore | historical present | history | immemorial | imperfect | in excess of | irrecoverable | lang syne | lapsed | last | lastingness | late | later than | life | lifetime | nearby | no more | obsolete | old | old times | olden | olden times | on | once | onetime | out | out of style | out of use | outside | outworn | over | over and above | passe | passed | passed away | past perfect | perfect | perfective | period | pluperfect | point tense | precedent | prehistoric | present | present perfect | preterit | preteritive | previous | primeval | primitive | prior | progressive tense | psychological time | quondam | recent | run out | since | sometime | space | space-time | subsequent to | tense | term | the future | the past | the present | then | tide | time | timebinding | too deep for | vanished | while | whilom | without | wound up | yesterday | yesteryear | yore See Also | auld langsyne | bygone | history | langsyne | life | noncurrent | old | old | old times | outgoing | period | period of time | preterit | preterite | tense | the good old days | time | time immemorial | time out of mind | time period | water under the bridge | yesterday Past In Webster's Dictionary \Past\, a. [From {Pass}, v.]
Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present
nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past
troubles; past offences. ``Past ages.'' --Milton.
{Past master}. See under {Master}.
\Past\, n. A former time or state; a state of things gone by. ``The past, at least, is secure.'' --D. Webster. The present is only intelligible in the light of the past, often a very remote past indeed. --Trench. \Past\, prep. 1. Beyond, in position, or degree; further than; beyond the reach or influence of. ``Who being past feeling.'' --Eph. iv. 19. ``Galled past endurance.'' --Macaulay. Until we be past thy borders. --Num. xxi. 22. Love, when once past government, is consequently past shame. --L'Estrange. 2. Beyond, in time; after; as, past the hour. Is it not past two o'clock? --Shak. 3. Above; exceeding; more than. [R.] Not past three quarters of a mile. --Shak. Bows not past three quarters of a yard long. --Spenser. \Past\, adv. By; beyond; as, he ran past. The alarum of drums swept past. --Longfellow. |
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