| dictionary | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
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| Sounds | pae'st |
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| Rhymes | aghast, amassed, bast / Bast, and 39 more rhymes in aest at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | Earlier than the present time. No longer current. |
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| Examples | "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year" |
| Attribute of | timing |
| Similar | ago, agone; ancient; bygone, bypast, departed, foregone, gone; chivalric, knightly, medieval; early, former, other; erstwhile, former, once, onetime, quondam, sometime; former, late, previous; historic, historical; last; late, recent; old; olden; other; prehistoric, prehistorical; then; ultimo, ult |
| See also | noncurrent; outgoing; nonmodern; old |
| Contrary | present; future |
| Meaning | Of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office. |
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| Synonyms | preceding, retiring |
| Similar to | outgoing |
| Meaning | A verb tense or other construction referring to events or states that existed at some previous time. |
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| Examples | "past participle" |
| Category | grammar |
| Nouns | past |
| Meaning | The time that has elapsed. |
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| Examples | "forget the past" |
| Synonyms | past times, yesteryear, yore |
| Narrower | bygone, water under the bridge; old; history; time immemorial, time out of mind; auld langsyne, langsyne, old times, the good old days; yesterday |
| Broader | time |
| Contrary | future, hereafter, futurity, time to come |
| Meaning | A earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret). |
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| Examples | "reporters dug into the candidate's past" |
| Part of | life |
| Broader | time period, period of time, period |
| Meaning | A verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past. |
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| Synonyms | past tense |
| Narrower | preterit, preterite |
| Broader | tense |
| Adjectives | past |
| Meaning | So as to pass a given point. |
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| Examples | "every hour a train goes past" |
| Synonyms | by |