past
noun [S] (TIME BEFORE) /pɑːst/
/pæst/ Definition
B1 the period before and until, but not including, the present time: Evolution can explain the past, but it can never predict the future. In the past, this sort of work was all done by hand. By winning the 1500 metres, he joins some of the great names of the past.In the past a past › a part of someone's life in which they did unacceptable or dishonest things: He's a man with a past.Events and occurrencesAccidents and disasters
(Definition of past noun (TIME BEFORE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- ago adverb
- any more idiom
- anymore adverb
- back in the day idiom
- before the Flood idiom
- bygone adjective
- departed adjective
- lapsed adjective
- latterly adverb
- many moons ago idiom
- no longer idiom
- of late idiom
- of old idiom
- past adjective (TIME BEFORE)
- sometime adjective
- step back (in time) idiom
- the good old days idiom
- the mists of time idiom
- the week/month/year before last idiom
- yore noun
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