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- DictionaryPast/past/
adjective
- 1. gone by in time and no longer existing: "the danger is now past"
noun
- 1. the time or a period of time before the moment of speaking or writing: "she found it hard to make ends meet in the past"
- 2. a past tense or form of a verb: "a simple past of the first conjugation"
preposition
- 1. to or on the further side of: "he rode on past the crossroads"
- 2. beyond in time; later than: "by this time it was past 3.30"
adverb
- 1. so as to pass from one side of something to the other: "large angelfish swim slowly past"
- 2. used to indicate the lapse of time: "a week went past and nothing changed"
1. a. : ago. 12 years past. started working on this project 10 years past. b. : just gone or elapsed. for the past few months. I spoke with him this past weekend. 2. : having existed or taken place in a period before the present : bygone. In past winters, we have had much more snow. 3.
Past definition: gone by or elapsed in time. See examples of PAST used in a sentence.
PAST definition: 1. in or to a position that is further than a particular point: 2. used to say what the time is…. Learn more.
1. completed, finished, and no longer in existence. past happiness. 2. denoting or belonging to all or a segment of the time that has elapsed at the present moment. the past history of the world. 3. denoting a specific unit of time that immediately precedes the present one. the past month.
If you hear that a person or a rare object in an antique store "has a past," get ready for a colorful story. As an adjective, past describes what is no longer current, like the past president of a club or past fashion craze — it's over: its time has passed.
PAST definition: 1. having happened or existed before now: 2. used to refer to a period of time before and until…. Learn more.
1. No longer current; gone by; over: His youth is past. 2. Having existed or occurred in an earlier time; bygone: past events; in years past. 3. a. Earlier than the present time; ago: 40 years past. b. Just gone by or elapsed: in the past few days. 4.
1. singular noun. The past is the time before the present, and the things that have happened. In the past, about a third of the babies born to women with diabetes died. See live in the past. 2. countable noun. Your past consists of all the things that you have done or that have happened to you.
PAST meaning: 1 : having existed in a time before the present from, done, or used in an earlier time; 2 : used to refer to a time that has gone by recently
Definition of past adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
