Defenition of the word past

• Defenition of the word past

  • The period of time that has already happened.
  • Having taken place or existed in the past.
  • so as to pass a given point; "every hour a train goes past"
  • earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year"
  • (grammar) a verb tense or other construction referring to events or states that existed at some previous time; "past participle"
  • a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret); "reporters dug into the candidate's past"
  • a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past
  • the time that has elapsed; "forget the past"
  • of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office; "a retiring member of the board"
  • a earlier period in someone''s life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret); "reporters dug into the candidate''s past"
  • a verb tense or other construction referring to events or states that existed at some previous time; "past participle"
  • the time that has elapsed
  • a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret)
  • of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office
  • earlier than the present time; no longer current
  • so as to pass a given point

Synonyms for the word past

• • ancient
  • ancient history
  • ancient times
  • beyond
  • by
  • bygone
  • earlier
  • earlier period
  • elapsed
  • forgotten
  • former
  • gone
  • historical
  • history
  • long-ago
  • older
  • onwards
  • over and done
  • past tense
  • past times
  • precedent
  • preceding
  • previous
  • retiring
  • times of yore
  • what went before
  • yesteryear
  • yore

Similar words in the past

• • ago
  • agone
  • ancient
  • bygone
  • bypast
  • chivalric
  • departed
  • earlier
  • early
  • early(a)
  • erstwhile
  • erstwhile(a)
  • ex
  • foregone
  • former
  • former(a)
  • gone
  • historic
  • historical
  • knightly
  • last
  • last(a)
  • late
  • late(a)
  • medieval
  • noncurrent
  • old
  • olden
  • once
  • once(a)
  • onetime
  • onetime(a)
  • other
  • other(a)
  • outgoing
  • past
  • pasta
  • pasta's
  • pastas
  • pasteboard
  • pasteboard's
  • pasted
  • pastel
  • pastel's
  • pastels
  • pastern
  • pastern's
  • pasternak
  • pasternak's
  • pasterns
  • pastes
  • pasteur
  • pasteur's
  • pasteurization
  • pasteurization's
  • pasteurize
  • pasteurized
  • pasteurizes
  • pasteurizing
  • pastiche
  • pastiche's
  • pastiches
  • pastier
  • pasties
  • pastiest
  • pastime
  • pastime's
  • pastimes
  • pasting
  • pastor
  • pastor's
  • pastoral
  • pastorals
  • pastorate
  • pastorate's
  • pastorates
  • pastors
  • pastrami
  • pastrami's
  • pastries
  • pastry
  • pastry's
  • pasts
  • pasturage
  • pasturage's
  • pasture
  • pasture's
  • pastured
  • pastures
  • pasturing
  • pasty
  • prehistoric
  • prehistorical
  • previous
  • previous(a)
  • quondam
  • quondam(a)
  • recent
  • sometime
  • sometime(a)
  • then
  • then(a)
  • ult
  • ultimo

Meronymys for the word past

• • life

Hyponyms for the word past

• • auld langsyne
  • bygone
  • good old days
  • history
  • langsyne
  • old
  • old times
  • preterit
  • preterite
  • the good old days
  • time immemorial
  • time out of mind
  • water under the bridge
  • yesterday
  • yore

Hypernyms for the word past

• • amount of time
  • period
  • period of time
  • tense
  • time
  • time period

Antonyms for the word past

• • future
  • futurity
  • hereafter
  • present
  • present(a)
  • time to come

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