| Main Entry: | ancient history |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ancient times |
Synonyms: |
antiquity, bygone days, distance of time, distant past, early history, prehistory, protohistory, remote past, the past, time immemorial, way back when |
| Main Entry: | over |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | accomplished |
Synonyms: |
ancient history, at an end, by, bygone, closed, completed, concluded, done, done with, ended, finished, gone, past, settled, up |
| Notes: | more than refers to countable items (there are more than 50 pies); over refers to general or unspecified amounts (over half the church is full) |
Antonyms: |
failed, incomplete, unfinished |
| Main Entry: | past |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | olden, former |
Synonyms: |
ages ago, ancient, ancient history, back when, behind one, bygone, bypast, down memory lane, earlier, early, erstwhile, ex-, foregoing, gone-by, good old days, late, latter, latter-day, long-ago, old, olden days, once, one-time, over, preceding, previous, prior, quondam, recent, retired, sometime, time was, way back, way back when |
Antonyms: |
current, future, present |
| Main Entry: | past |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
past, ancestral, archaeological, blown over, bygone, cidevant, elapsed, expired, exploded, extinct, foregoing, foregone, forgotten, former, gone, gone by, hesternal, irrecoverable, lapsed, last, late, latter, looking back, never to return, no more, nudiustertian, obsolete, over, overnight, passed away, preterite, preteritial, preterlapsed, preterperfect, preterpluperfect, pridian, pristine, quondam, recent, retroactive, retrospective, run out, sometime, that has been, thenadays, whilom, yestern
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