| Main Entry: | past |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | time gone by |
Synonyms: |
antiquity, days gone by, former times, good old days, history, long ago, old lang syne, old times, olden days, time immemorial, times past, years ago, yesterday, yesteryear, yore |
Antonyms: |
future, present |
| Main Entry: | then |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | before; at another time |
Synonyms: |
again, all at once, anon, at that instant, at that moment, at that point, at that time, before long, formerly, later, next, on that occasion, soon after, suddenly, thereupon, when, years ago |
| Notes: | than is ultimately the same word as then, and the two were used interchangeably until the end of the 17th century |
| Main Entry: | past |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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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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