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- Dictionarypast/pɑːst/
adjective
- 1. gone by in time and no longer existing: "the danger is now past" Similar
noun
- 1. the 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" Similar
adverb
- 1. so as to pass from one side of something to the other: "a flotilla of glossy limousines swept past"
- 2. used to indicate the lapse of time: "a week went past and nothing changed"
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used to refer to a period of time before and until the present: The average temperature worldwide has risen by about one degree Fahrenheit in the past 100 years.
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.
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 were lost. He should learn from the mistakes of the past. We have been here before. We would like to put the past behind us. See live in the past. 2. countable noun [usually singular]
noun. uk / pɑːst / us. the past. B1. the time before the present and all the things that happened then: the distant / recent past. In the past people would bathe once a month. A2. the form of the verb which is used to show what happened in the past.
Past definition: gone by or elapsed in time. See examples of PAST used in a sentence.
As an adjective, past describes what is no longer current, like the past president of a club or past fashion craze — it's over: its time has passed. Definitions of past. adjective. earlier than the present time; no longer current. “time past ” “his youth is past ” “this past Thursday” “the past year” synonyms: noncurrent.
past meaning, definition, what is past: done, used, or experienced before now: Learn more.
what has existed or has happened at some earlier time: Try to forget the past, now that your troubles are over. the events, phenomena, conditions, etc., that characterized an earlier historical period: That hat is something out of the past.
1. always used before a noun : having existed in a time before the present : from, done, or used in an earlier time. The museum displays artifacts from past [= earlier] civilizations. She was hired based on her past experience in sales. 2. always used before a noun — used to refer to a time that has gone by recently.
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.
