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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 No longer current.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 |