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Past
pɑːst
- gone by in time and no longer existing
"the danger is now past"
gone by over over and done with no more gone done dead and buried finished ended forgotten bygone former old of old earlier long-ago ancient defunct extinct- belonging to a former time
"they made a study of the reasons why past attempts had failed"
- (of a specified period of time) occurring before and leading up to the time of speaking or writing
"the band has changed over the past twelve months"
- (of a tense) expressing an action that has happened or a state that previously existed
- the time before the moment of speaking or writing
"she found it hard to make ends meet in the past"
formerly previously in days/years/times gone by in bygone days back in the day in former times in the (good) old days at one time in days of old in the olden days in olden times in the before times- the history of a person or place
"the monuments act as guidelines through the country's colourful past"
- a part of a person's history that is considered to be shameful
"he was well dressed and enthusiastic, but the tattoo on his hand hinted that he had a past"
- a past tense or form of a verb
"a simple past of the first conjugation"
- to or on the further side of
"he rode on past the crossroads"
into and out of to the other/far side of from one side of … to the other from end to end of between past by down along across by way of via- in front of or from one side to the other of
"he began to drive slowly past the houses"
- beyond in time; later than
"by this time it was past 3.30"
- beyond a particular point, stage, or limit
"he feels his opponent is past his prime"
- no longer capable of
"he is past giving the best advice"