Definition of past Past
/pæˈst/ - [past] - past
We found 21 definitions of past from 7 different sources.
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What does past mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: pasts |
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| past - the time that has elapsed; "forget the past" | ||
| past times, yesteryear | ||
| time to come, futurity, hereafter, future the quality of being in or of the future | ||
| time the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past | ||
| yore time long past | ||
| bygone, water under the bridge past events to be put aside; "let bygones be bygones" | ||
| old past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old') | ||
| history the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view" | ||
| time immemorial, time out of mind the distant past beyond memory | ||
| auld langsyne, good old days, langsyne, old times past times remembered with nostalgia | ||
| past - a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past | ||
| past tense | ||
| tense a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time | ||
| past - a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret); "reporters dug into the candidate's past" | ||
| period of time, time period, period an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" | ||
Adjectivepast, paster, pastest |
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| past - earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year" | ||
| present temporal sense; intermediate between past and future; now existing or happening or in consideration; "the present leader"; "articles for present use"; "the present topic"; "the present system"; "present observations" | ||
| future (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving; "our next president" | ||
| noncurrent not current or belonging to the present time | ||
| old of a very early stage in development; "Old English is also called Anglo Saxon"; "Old High German is High German from the middle of the 9th to the end of the 11th century" | ||
| outgoing retiring from a position or office; "the outgoing president" | ||
| timing the regulation of occurrence, pace, or coordination to achieve a desired effect (as in music, theater, athletics, mechanics) | ||
| ago, agone gone by; or in the past; "two years ago"; "`agone' is an archaic word for `ago'" | ||
| ancient very old; "an ancient mariner" | ||
| bygone, bypast, foregone, departed, gone well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era" | ||
| chivalric, knightly, medieval characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages; "chivalric rites"; "the knightly years" | ||
| former, other, early referring to the first of two things or persons mentioned (or the earlier one or ones of several); "the novel was made into a film in 1943 and again in 1967; I prefer the former version to the latter one" | ||
| erstwhile, one-time, onetime, quondam, sometime, former, old belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover" | ||
| previous, former, late just preceding something else in time or order; "the previous owner"; "my old house was larger" | ||
| historic, historical important in history; "the historic first voyage to outer space" | ||
| last occurring at the time of death; "his last words"; "the last rites" | ||
| recent, late new; "recent graduates"; "a recent addition to the house"; "recent buds on the apple trees" | ||
| olden long past; "olden days" | ||
| other very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected; "a strange, other dimension...where his powers seemed to fail"- Lance Morrow | ||
| prehistorical, prehistoric no longer fashionable; "my mother has these prehistoric ideas about proper clothes" | ||
| then at a specific prior time; "the then president" | ||
| past - of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office; "a retiring member of the board" | ||
| preceding, retiring | ||
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Wiktionary 
- past (Noun)
The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future. - past (Noun)
The past tense . - past (Adverb)
In a direction that passes. - past (Adjective)
Having already happened; in the past; finished. - past (Adjective)
Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- past (v.)
Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences. - past (n.)
A former time or state; a state of things gone by. - past (prep.)
Beyond, in position, or degree; further than; beyond the reach or influence of. - past (prep.)
Beyond, in time; after; as, past the hour. - past (prep.)
Above; exceeding; more than. - past (adv.)
By; beyond; as, he ran past.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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past
The period of time that has already happened. -
past
Having taken place or existed in the past.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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past
past, pa.p. of Pass.—adj. gone by: elapsed: ended: now retired from service: in time already passed.—prep. farther than: out of reach of: no longer capable of.—adv. by.—The past, that which has passed, esp. time
Wikipedia 
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The past is something that has already happened. If something has not happened yet, it is called the future.
Professors and researchers that study the events of the past, and try to explain why these events happened are called history professors or historians.
Many books, movies, and television shows tell made-up stories about the past. These are called historical fiction. Some books, movies, and television shows from a style called science fiction or fantasy tell made-up stories about being able to travel through time back to the past.
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🔤- past, noun, singular of pasts.
- past, adjective, not comparable.
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